Does It Work on Brain Worms?

 

Hydroxychloroquine is apparently old news, because the real hot new thing going on in Covid Country is taking horse paste, or Ivermectin, as either a preventative (I am aware of no immune-boosting abilities associated with shitting one's brains out) or as a treatment (I am aware of no virus-fighting abilities associated with shitting one's brains out--actually screwing up your intestinal flora sounds pretty goddamn bad). 

Senator Rand Paul, who is board certified eye doctor-adjacent, says people are blocking research into this valuable treatment because they are haters. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who mainstream media but especially conservative media try to make seem smarter and less psychopathic than he actually is, is being advised by an Ivermectin-supporter. And the same kind of idiot anti-vax dumbfucks who gave us the Nuremberg Codes talking point includes this dumbfuck who was testing Ivermectin on actual prisoners. 

Swell. There's a vaccine and some pretty basic hygienic protocols out there, but okay--people are going to take an anti-parasitic  for basically no good reason other than they don't trust the gummit or the pointy headed so-called "experts". And they are basically poisoning themselves to spite "The System".  And supposedly, you should try to talk these people down without implying they are dumbfucks. 

Sorry. That is not going to happen here. I am going to go ahead and call people dumbfucks for engaging in hardcore dumbfuckery. Because straight talk is not always nice. This is a thing called grandmotherly kindness. 

(Consider this the image of what my blog is always for.)

I'm not dancing on the graves of Joe Manning, or Marc Bernier, or Caleb Wallace.  To paraphrase a certain book, they preyed on a street corner and got their reward. And maybe, to compound the tragedy of their deaths, they even believed in the thing--the disinformation, that killed them. And also maybe not, because that's how disinfo works. Wretched people are wretched. They lie for all kinds of reasons, including attention. Social media gives us a very specific and nasty kind of anti-science geek. 

I get that people want to think they can fix themselves up for damn near nothing. There's tons of people out there who want to believe that mechanics and repairmen will fuck you over for the price of like, six bucks you could just get some washers and a gasket and do yourself a job in an afternoon, and why isn't medicine the same way? After all you had a body your whole life and so did cavemen, so why can't a remedy be simple and cheap? 

Why can't you just disinfect yourself with a little bleach or something? And of course people want to believe cleanliness is the end-all and be-all of warding off a plague. Be healthy--don't be  fat or disabled. Don't coddle yourself with masks or limiting yourself, they say--breathe the same fresh air as all the other gaspers and gapers around you. 

It just doesn't work, is all. So people are taking horse paste, and thinking they are passing rope worms when they are actually shitting out part of their own intestines, under the mistaken belief that something in their own digestive system is toxic--just like weirdos who "cleanse" or whatever (expensively) in the mistaken belief that you're just one weird trick from being thin, or young-looking, or knocking boots like you were in your twenties. The kind of hope in a bottle thinking conservative social networks are sadly primed for. 

But nothing is that simple. Things fall apart because entropy increases, but our society is both complex and fragile.  A hurricane happens in the midst of a pandemic, full ICUs and nowhere to evacuate patients. Children are orphaned. The world is untidy and cruel. Get vaccinations, boosters, accept masks and social distancing. Unhaunt your head. We are living in a time of trial and tribulation, but these aren't some fucking end times. They are just bad times, and need good people to step the hell up and do the right things.