Some members of the group are taking ivermectin not only as a treatment against COVID, but as a cure-all for almost every disease—from cancer and depression, to autism and ovarian cysts—believing that every disease is caused by a parasite that is removed from the body by ivermectin, just as animals are given the drug to treat parasitic worms like tapeworm.
Lemoi also formulated an ivermectin regimen for children, and numerous members of the group reported that they were using it. This week alone one member wrote that she had established another group for “parents of children on the spectrum, cerebral palsy, pans/panda, downs etc.,” who are using the Lemoi’s recommended children’s dosage.
:wut:
DAE remember a time where you thought forcing people into reeducation camps would be wrong, somehow?
I definitely used to think Chinese censorship of social media was bad :freeze-peach: what a rube I was, what a buffoon
My partner has a family member who fits the stereotype of the histrionic, thumb-shaped, middle-aged suburban psycho to a T. I've recently been able to make progress with him with getting him to challenge some of his reactionary views.
The secret to getting him to open his mind to new ideas? Literally just showing him cool elementary school science shit. Motherfucker didn't know you could make sugar crystals in a jar. He didn't know that baking soda was the opposite of acidic. The dude sent me a video the other day about plate tectonics and Pangea. He's no longer a young earth creationist. Now he thinks dinosaurs are tight.
He's a pretty sharp dude, too. He's just stuck in a mindset where it's good to know about your job and it's bad to be curious about anything else. It's important to remember how much emphasis every communist revolution has put on literacy programs and how much our enemies want to keep people in the dark.
Sadly, Ivermectin is not the best dewormer for their particular type of parasite: :brainworms:
Just before 7 am on March 3, Danny Lemoi posted an update in his hugely popular pro-ivermectin Telegram group, Dirt Road Discussions: “HAPPY FRIDAY ALL YOU POISONOUS HORSE PASTE EATING SURVIVORS !!!”
Hours later, Lemoi was dead.
fantastic opener
10/10I was house-hunting in Colombia in 2021 and did a triple take when I walked into a dude's bathroom and there was a wall of shelves full of ivermectin paste
America's #1 export is brainworms
good thing I was masked up
These people should be charged with child abuse. And the dead guy should be sentenced in absentia so whenever someone looks up his name, his obituary, news reports about him, and a felony record pops up
“Though it was obvious that Danny had the biggest heart, it was unbeknownst to him that his heart was quite literally overworking and overgrowing beyond its capacity..."
I couldn't help but howl at this unintentional hilarity...
I don't know if there's a named cognitive bias for it, but it's the same kind of cult mechanic that Qanon and gangstalking thrive on. You have some absurd bullshit that no one else will listen to. Every other person in that group has some absurd bullshit no one else will listen to. As long as you accept their bullshit wholesale, they'll be the only people in the world who validate you drinking pee to vibrate louder.
If you're already predisposed to aLtErNaTiVe MeDiCiNe conspiracism the only community willing to entertain you relies on you accepting a dozen contradictory ideas. Accepting everything with a herd mentality makes them gravitate to the most extreme parts because they sell the most miraculous form of the cure-all. It's why I was super anti-plague rat well before the pandemic. They're insulated by so many layers of nonsense that they can only go further into it lest their whole worldview collapse.
This is exactly the kind of syncretism Umberto Eco picked out as a characteristic of fascism:
Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, “the combination of different forms of belief or practice”; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a silver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth.
As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. Truth has been already spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message.
General distrust in a predatory health care system propped up by the ruling class while people watch their friends and families suffer, and then encouraged by FB/Telegram groups to try insane cures because it gives them some agency in situations they would otherwise feel helpless over.
I still don't understand why CBD didn't, and still doesn't, get the attention ivermectin did when it actually does something and doesn't fucking kill you
Is it literally just because "CBD is a miracle cure" is played out and grifters think they couldn't sell more of it? Idk
I think it's all timing. CBD cure all types came around when the drug was catching on, but since the average person wasn't living in fear of a global pandemic of a deadly virus they were roundly mocked as hippie cranks.
Probably because it's related to weed in conservatives' broken brains.
I get all of my medical advice from guys in towns with a population less than 5000. You see more sick people in hospitals than anywhere else, so if you want to be healthy, move to somewhere without a hospital!
My year of living in Rhode Island taught me two things
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New England is full of :brainworms: , both lib and chud
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Coffee milk is good
Coffee milk served with a pair of hot weenuhz - the local delicacy.
And they say white people don't have culture. Pfft.
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Lemoi’s recommended children’s dosage
Dr. Horse-Paste says...
Some members of the group are taking ivermectin not only as a treatment against COVID, but as a cure-all for almost every disease—from cancer and depression, to autism and ovarian cysts—believing that every disease is caused by a parasite that is removed from the body by ivermectin, just as animals are given the drug to treat parasitic worms like tapeworm.
People dare to make fun of medieval thinkers for believing the Miasma theory of disease but at least that had the weight of centuries of tradition behind it. This is just some bullshit a random guy said on facebook, and then thousands of credulous fools willingly poisoned themselves.
This is a variant of some :brainworms: that have been floating around in conspiracy groups for a couple decades probably. There are people who give their autistic children bleach enemas and then conclude the intestinal lining that comes out are parasites which are supposedly what is afflicting their kid.
They're just trying to kill their children because they aren't allowed to do it directly right.
