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.
Unfortunately, pure dosage is not the only issue.
Ivermectin is not sold over-the-counter for people for a reason. One of the big reasons is that it can interact with other medications (like blood thinners) to create serious problems. Also, it can make breathing problems like asthma worse. Which is why they want doctors to be the ones prescribing it, so they can ensure that side effects and potential interactions with meds, foods, and lifestyle can be monitored safely.
And as I've mentioned before, ivermectin is not the only ingredient in any livestock dewormer. Those pastes are mixed with plenty of ingredients that are inactive in HORSES, but have not been tested for safety in people. Because they never thought people were actually going to take it.
This is different than "human" ivermectin, which is compiled only with ingredients that have been tested and confirmed safe in people. And under MUCH tighter chemical control.
What you decide to put into your body is your choice. But please don't believe that some back-of-the-napkin body weight math is all it takes to beat the system.
Unless you know how to chemically, precisely extract ivermectin from the horse paste into a known, pure concentration (I do not), then you're taking ivermectin PLUS some mystery assortment of chemicals that nobody has bothered to evaluate in people for health effects.
https://www.durvet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Ivermectin-Paste_Bimeda_112015_SDS.pdf
Checkmate. This is the MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET for Ivermectin paste. The Material Safety Data Sheet outlines safety hazards around ingestion of a substance, and must include safety hazards for humans associated with all sources, not just for horses.
It lists some proprietary ingredients, and EXPLICITLY STATES they are not classified as dangerous.
That is a dangerous, bullshit, red-herring, gaslighting argument. You have been debunked.
I'm actually impressed that you pulled out the MSDS for this. I have a lot of experience reading these.
Can you tell me exactly which part you say, "EXPLICITLY STATES" that these proprietary ingredients are not classified as dangerous?
Section 2.1 is the part that talks about hazards, and it pretty clearly states that there are hazards involved with taking this. Which is why it gets the H203 classification.
3.2 talks about the proprietary ingredients, and states they're not classified. If they were confirmed not to be dangerous, they would be classified. Not being classified means it wasn't tested.
Which isn't uncommon in inactive ingredients in medications not designed for humans. Because they aren't going to risk testing things in people that they don't reasonably expect people to eat.
That is per 1910.1200 a5.iii, which discusses chemicals they don't need to label.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/29/1910.1200
If they WERE dangerous, they'd be a real big hurry to classify them. Since they are not dangerous, they couldn't be bothered to. That's the way it works. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, man.
If they CARED if it was dangerous for people, then it would be tested and classified. If they expect people to eat it, they will classify it. No question. End of story. Even if they believed it was safe.
Even water has an MSDS sheet, and we literally die without it. It's classified because people will consume it.
https://fscimage.fishersci.com/msds/00199.htm
They do not care about classifying everything in horse medication, because they didn't expect people to eat horse medication.
There is no hurry or requirement that they test proprietary chemicals designed for and tested for horses if it's exclusively being used in a medication not designed for people.
Testing chemicals on people requires people volunteers. If there is no reasonable expectation that people will be consuming a chemical, they not only WON'T test it on people, but they wouldn't even get approval from the ethics board to do so.
Human testing requires ENORMOUS justification. Legally, ethically, and scientifically.
The fact that you're choosing to eat this stuff does not mean they were expected to predict that people would be eating this stuff. There's not an MSDS for some of the stuff in Tide Pods, either.