Maggie's Farm

The Great Oklahoma Ivermectin Horse Paste & Gun Shot Tragedy is a great example of how phoney information is laundered into news. Rolling Stone had to work hard to fabricate such a story - there are bad assumptions at just about every paragraph in the story, multiple facts - nurse shortages, ambulance scarcity, rural hospitals that don't have ICU capacity, and no gunshot victims to line up. All of which raise red flags to any reader with a normal sense of healthy skepticism.

And what happened? The story got picked up by all the right customers, Maddow (MadCow), Steltzer, and so on. And although quickly and thoroughly debunked, these mass media outlets continued to run the story, and social media sites refused to pull it down - normally on high-alert if the political spin is clockwise-to-the-right. They have a system down pat.

American Digest had an interesting story on 52! (the sheer size of numbers represented by 52-factorial, compared to other big numbers). It's worth watching and contemplating the probability that the handling of the The Great Oklahoma Ivermectin Horse Paste & Gun Shot Tragedy is an unplanned, unconnected coincidental event.

Joe Rogan, who is a fitness beast anyway, is pretty much fully recovered after a week of COVID. His account (language warning) may be found here, about 15 minutes from his show:

https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/bro-do-i-have-to-sue-cnn-joe-rogan-rages-at-network-and-jim-acosta-claims-theyre-making-sht-up-about-his-use-of-ivermectin/

Wait a minute...the virus also lives in the animal population, just as influenza does??. I had not heard this. In fact, I had heard that to date, there have been no examples of COVID-19 found in the animal population, hence steering the hypothetical first human infections to the 'lab release' theory.

Which animals has it been found in? Where? Can you cite please I'd like to follow up.

No, you need to retract that crap; I've said no such thing. I have had COVID and for me it was thankfully a pretty non-event, as it has been for other mostly healthy people that I know. For my wife, it was a bit more uncomfortable. I've also had a 90+ year old mom in various states of lockdown for over a year and we've had to battle for her mental health, as well as her physical well-being. People I know have died, and people I know have been vaccinated, have gotten it again and died.

Now you declare it 'jumped from the animal population', and then deflate that assertion by saying 'probably a bat'. No host species in the wild has been identified, no examples produced, as far as I know - not so?

I had forgotten about the pets (cats and dogs) catching it from humans and testing positive, I did read that earlier in the year. I have not heard of anybody catching it from an animal. As far as I can tell there is NO evidence of that, including your citation. In the old days, I guess we would call those things "Facts", and as you can see, I have invited you to refute them, in the manner of people having an exchange of ideas.

It's not a good look to pejoratively call people that ask logical questions 'deniers', evoking the spirit of the deniers of the Nazi Holocaust, who were a small collection of nasty cranks. Doing that only makes one look like an unreasonable idiot that wants only conformance, not discussion.

And in case you haven't noticed, Authority is not always your friend and protector, and is sometimes found to be incorrect in its assumptions, inconsistent in its application of the rules, and prone to protecting its favorites in spite of its supposedly even-handed mission of public service. If you want to obey without question, you don't need anybody's permission - be my guest.