1- they’re not buying the human pills, because those require a prescription and don’t actually work against Covid.
2- the tubes of medication they ARE buying are from veterinary stores, and the main purpose is indeed to deworm horses. There’s a horse on the package and everything.
3- the name stuck, because the people taking ivermectin to stop Covid were/are a bunch of antivax morons deserving of much more than merely scorn and ridicule for the number of deaths on their hands.
It’s not misleading in either accuracy or implication. It is not inaccurate to say it is horse dewormer, it is also not misleading to imply it is as effective as using horse dewormer.
It implies that’s it’s main use, which it’s isn’t. We give gorillas birth control but you don’t see people calling the birth control women take “gorilla birth control” that’s just silly
A distinction without difference. So what if it has other uses? None of them are more effective against COVID as it’s use as horse dewormer. Again, it isn’t misleading in fact or implication.
The people using the horse dewormer are silly, calling it horse dewormer brings light to that fact.
I think the problem with your analogy is that it isn’t analogous. The flaw is that the drug is used as a contraceptive in both species, so it has similarity in use, you’d be silly calling it gorilla contraceptive because it is effective as a contraceptive. If people started taking gorilla contraceptive to cure cystic fibrosis (actually analogous) call it gorrilla contraceptive to mock them all you want.
They take it for everything but worms though.
Well, it did win the nobel prize for being multifaceted
Yeah for treating different kinds of parasites not viruses
Then why call it a “horse dewormer”?
Because it is used as a horse dewormer, it is a veterinary medicine used to kill parasites.
But we’re talking about humans, this narrative is weird and misleading
Not really. The whole thing started because people were buying it from farm supply stores where it was being sold for animal usage
1- they’re not buying the human pills, because those require a prescription and don’t actually work against Covid.
2- the tubes of medication they ARE buying are from veterinary stores, and the main purpose is indeed to deworm horses. There’s a horse on the package and everything.
3- the name stuck, because the people taking ivermectin to stop Covid were/are a bunch of antivax morons deserving of much more than merely scorn and ridicule for the number of deaths on their hands.
worms are parasites?
But it’s used on humans on a massive scale, calling it horse dewormer is misleading
It’s not misleading in either accuracy or implication. It is not inaccurate to say it is horse dewormer, it is also not misleading to imply it is as effective as using horse dewormer.
It implies that’s it’s main use, which it’s isn’t. We give gorillas birth control but you don’t see people calling the birth control women take “gorilla birth control” that’s just silly
A distinction without difference. So what if it has other uses? None of them are more effective against COVID as it’s use as horse dewormer. Again, it isn’t misleading in fact or implication.
The people using the horse dewormer are silly, calling it horse dewormer brings light to that fact.
I think the problem with your analogy is that it isn’t analogous. The flaw is that the drug is used as a contraceptive in both species, so it has similarity in use, you’d be silly calling it gorilla contraceptive because it is effective as a contraceptive. If people started taking gorilla contraceptive to cure cystic fibrosis (actually analogous) call it gorrilla contraceptive to mock them all you want.