Relax, it's a joke. But apple-flavored ivermectin is real.
WBZ reports a drugstore in Hopkinton is using a Rte. 9 billboard to offer up only the freshest, choicest human-type ivermectin for those Massholes who don't believe in doctors and science and stuff - except you theoretically can't get human-style ivermectin without a prescription. The state Department of Public Health is investigating.
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Wait until they find out
By MikeBoston
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 9:58am
that Bill Gates actually put the microchips into the horse paste. OMG!
I don't know about you ...
By adamg
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 10:10am
But I'm loving the faster 5G that comes with it.
Hahahaha!
By Lee
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 11:18am
Hahahaha!
5G
By Kaz
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 1:01pm
Gait, Gallop, Gelding, Groom, and Gaskin?
Well played
By tachometer
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 4:34pm
I think I would have squeezed Gish Gallop in there.
That magnetism thing ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 8:39pm
I'll never lose my keys again!
The pharmacy should be fined
By Karen
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 10:06am
The pharmacy should be fined for spreading misinformation.
This pharmacy stocks...
By Friartuck
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 10:59am
Iron supplements and irony
Haha! I hope so.
By Lee
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 11:19am
Otherwise maybe the pharmacist needs a license re-evaluation.
They need a prescription, right?
By BostonDog
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 11:46am
Don't you need a prescription if buying it through a pharmacy? As opposed to, say, AGWAY.
If the compounding pharmacy is distributing without a prescription, they need to be closed. Likewise, any doctor prescribing it for non-approved uses is risking their license.
It would be a good investigative piece for a local outlet.
Shhh
By Kaz
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 1:02pm
I heard it's a honeypot.
Speaking of which, new honey-flavored ivermectin now available at this pharmacy!
Nothing helps that taste
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 8:40pm
I've seen a horse eat an apple around the glob of hidden ivermectin and then spit out the goop.
Not enough.
By jmeltzer
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 4:44pm
Shut down.
Let them
By Luke Warmer
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 10:10am
take it. Let's get it over with already.
And...
By lbb
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 11:54am
...when the fill up the ERs and the hospital beds because they did a stupid, other people can't get necessary medical care.
I understand your reaction, but they won't just take the horse paste and then slink off into a corner to die like a poisoned rat. They'll cause much bigger problems.
And...
By ScottB
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:33pm
Wouldn't it be better for crazies who feel the need to take Ivermectin to at least be given appropriate human-sized dosage under the direction of a physician, rather than taking whatever they can get at Tractor Supply or Agway?
Let me be clear: I don't think anyone should be taking Ivermectin unless there's an appropriate indication (like parasitic infection). But if you're someone who believes, for example, that IV drug users should be given clean needles to reduce harm, you probably ought to consider that perhaps the better response for people who are gonna get their hands on Ivermectin by hook or by crook is to give them safer dosages which are less likely to lead to hospitalization.
except it won't
By anon
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 1:01pm
people stupid enough to believe this will help are trolling certain websites that have "recommended dosages" for the stuff. If they don't get what they think they need from the doctor, who is obviously under the control of Big Pharma and George Soros, they will actually take more or get it elsewhere (including those sites, which put them in touch with doctors who will write them prescriptions for it at the so called recommended dosages). So we'll still have all the problems of people taking it and the added liability for the doctors for trying to appease their delusions.
Doctors are responsible for their decisions
By ScottB
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 3:49pm
It's their job to talk to their patients and discourage use of Ivermectin for reasons that aren't indicated -- like Covid. No one is putting a gun to their head and forcing them to write a script.
That said, Ivermectin is pretty safe [b]at normal human dosages[/b]. Writing someone a script for human-sized doses is probably better than having them otherwise go to Tractor Supply for livestock-sized doses.
Good luck getting insurance to cover that
By Tim Mc.
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 4:59pm
even if you ignore the issue of doctors likely refusing to write a prescription for an unneeded medication.
I mean...
By erik g
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 10:33am
if your doctor is writing you a prescription for it, there's a 99% chance it's going to be explained away as a treatment for roundworms, or some other type of parasite. Which it's really helpful for treating! And if you take it at the dosage appropriate for humans, it's really safe! And it's old enough to be off of patent, so it's actually pretty cheap, AFAICT. Insurance would be silly not to cover it, because the alternative is a patient showing up in the ER with river blindness or severe wasting symptoms from all the parasites living in his body.
Now, if the doctor is stupid enough to write the prescription for a patient reporting COVID symptoms, NOW we have a problem. But we can solve that problem by taking away that doctor's license to practice medicine. Even if the patient is an idiot for seeking out an off-label treatment that doesn't work, that's why we have doctors: they're gatekeepers who are supposed to use their own expertise to keep patients from hurting themselves. What I'm having trouble figuring out is where this billboard comes into play, because even a compounding pharmacy can't just dispense this stuff without someone with an MD calling in the RX.
Yes, it would be insurance fraud
By Tim Mc.
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 11:43am
on top of Hippocratic oath violation for the doctor to say "oh, it's for parasites" when the person actually has covid.
I'm with you on the confusion about the pharmacy.
Harm Reduction
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 8:42pm
Supervised injection is harm reduction.
Supervised ivermectin is harm creation. If the trade off is sterility to avoid blindness, that's a pretty good trade for many. But if it is sterility versus ... nothing?
Yeah
By brianjdamico
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:36pm
Wishing self-inflicted harm on those who have been dangerously mislead by others is not going to help at all. These people did not come up with the idea to take a random drug on their own, and for whatever unfortunate reasons have become easily persuaded to believe certain dangerous people giving them these ideas.
Sure it'll help
By Former Westroxer
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 2:32pm
It'll remove them from the gene pool, the voter rolls, and the roads. THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL ME. So, yeah, I wish them harm, and I refuse to feel bad about it. They are dumb, they are going to stay dumb, and they are going to resist any efforts to make them less dumb.
But before it removes them
By lbb
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 9:36pm
But before it removes them, they will take up a bed in a hospital, they will require care and resources, they will keep someone who didn't do something stupid and harmful from getting needed medical care. Keeping them from doing that is what's most important.
Cool
By brianjdamico
Fri, 09/24/2021 - 5:17am
We’ve moved from wishing harm to wishing death.
There was also the "Don't get
By anon_wd
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 10:52am
There was also the "Don't get vaccinated" truck advertising for a purported funeral home whose #/ site directs back to a vax/ testing provider outside the Carolina Panthers stadium Sunday
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/dont-get...
Childhood friend
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 09/23/2021 - 8:46pm
I have a childhood friend who took over his family's funeral business.
He's currently pondering doing this on his own - even though this truck was a fake.
He's been very stressed out because funeral directors apparently emotionally recharge by helping people through the process of grieving - and all he's been able to do is the nastier draining parts of the work (bag and tag) since COVID happened.
Drug Store
By Ellen
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 11:59am
I think this is grounds for shutting the place down and yanking professional licenses.
If the Yelp reviews are any indication
By jmeltzer
Wed, 09/22/2021 - 4:49pm
this place was already skeevy.