A reasonable, responsible government that actually cared about people's lives would not be screaming "HORSE DEWORMER, HORSE DEWORMER!"
A reasonable, responsible government would be saying exactly this:
"Even though ivermectin has not been approved by the FDA to treat covid-19, there is still some evidence to suggest it can help reduce the severity and duration of illness. If you attempt to use Ivermectin formulated for large farm animals, make sure to reduce the dosage accordingly to adjust for human body weight so you do do not overdose on medication."
But no, they started screaming, "HORSE DEWORMER!!!"
I hate these people.
They're obligated to care if it's dangerous to people. PEOPLE HAVE TO HANDLE THIS STUFF WHEN THEY ARE MAKING IT.
THATS WHAT THE MSDS IS FOR LMFAO.
Your logic is so ass backwards.
People aren't required to eat this when they're handling it...
That reasoning is specifically why I do not believe there is any hazard of accidentally ingesting the filler ingredients in small amounts. Because there would be a warning to the employees that work with it if there was.
I’ve been a horse trainer/barn manager for 15 years… I have had more horses try to sling this stuff at my face than I can count… so far, no issues I’m aware of (and no COVID haha)
You can believe what you want about it, but no lab I’ve ever existed in has taken special care to inform me that I shouldn’t be eating random chemicals I was mixing.
It’s kind of… a given…
Like, you don’t even drink lab water. You could. But you don’t. It’s the trigger discipline of lab work.
Yes… the keyword here being LAB. Ivermectin is not used in a lab setting with all professional adults. Most of the time it’s used around 1000 pound animals that don’t always like what your trying to squeeze into their mouths. Some horses behave and others… well… not so much and you end up covered with more of that paste than you actually managed to get the horse. Imagine trying to force a 1000lb+ toddler to take a medicine they really REALLY don’t want to take. I’d say about 1 of every 7 or 8 horses has this kind of reaction. So no farm worker needs to be told to not eat it but are there more than a couple times it inadvertently gets in your mouth? You bet.
But they're generally going to be required (either by regulators or insurance companies) to have warnings and instructions about what happens if you accidentally do end up doing it, because these company's legal departments typically go to great lengths to cover their ass in the event of any sort of liability, even if it's unrealistic or potentially laughable that people might ingest it in such a way.
That's why they included toxicity information for the ivermectin in the same document. In case it's accidentally ingested or an employee is accidentally exposed to some quantity of it while producing it.
They included toxicity information about ivermectin because they have data about ivermectin, since it's a medication that HAS been tested on people. They don't re-test every component of a medication over and over again every time it's re-released in a slightly different mixture.
Look, I appreciate the perspective you have on this. I just don't think it's one that's based on a lot of experience with how these things are tested, regulated, and understood. Which is why I'm trying to help provide that context. And I've done so. If you choose to think I'm lying, manipulating you, and you don't want to accept my perspective on this, that's perfectly okay, and I hope that your health remains well.
No, I just believe the assumption that there will ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY be some horrible toxic filler material that is only safe for horses in there to be absolutely ridiculous.
In fact, if there was, wouldn't CNN, MSNBC, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post all be screaming about it right now? They care about our health right? They want us to be informed right?
But no, it's ivermectin they're smearing. If it was the filler ingredient that made it unsafe to ingest, they'd say something about it so that the conspiracy theorists like us have no excuses left!
I challenge anyone to PROVE IT.
I'm waiting.
Have you ever dewormed a horse? It’s much more of a contact sport than you’d believe. Deworming generally happens every 6-8 weeks for the whole barn at the same time. I guarantee you if I deworm 25 horses, at least 5 of them are slinging that paste directly at my face….