Jail Doc Defends Prescribing Dewormer To Inmates For COVID, Despite FDA Warning | Talking Points Memo

The Arkansas doctor in charge of medical care at a county jail in Fayetteville has defended his practice of prescribing inmates with dewormer as a COVID-19 preventative, despite an FDA warning that Americans “should not” use the drug for COVID. 


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WHAT THE HOLY F…??? THIS is what we do to citizens of our country, jailed or not? And yet the self same conservatives are whining and moaning about what BIDEN DAMMIT is doing to the Afghans? I am sick to my stomach.

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“People are doing well and his survival rate’s 100%. Knock on wood, I pray that that doesn’t change.”

Well, if he knocked on wood, that’s good enough for me.

Of the rush on veterinary medicine supplies, Karas said, “It’s sad, but when you’re desperate, desperate people do desperate things.”

Right up to, but just short of, taking a proven life-saving vaccination. That, my friends, is a bridge too far.

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Well, in fairness, he is a Doctor.

Of Veterinary Medicine…

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That doctor needs to have his license taken away. And his head examined. And those who permit him to give the wormer to prisoners need to be fired. What the hell is the matter with these people?

Trump should be blamed for all this dangerous idiocy.

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So far, Covid has not been detected in horses, cows, or worms.

Checkmate.

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This is apparently a big thing all across the south. I ran into a business executive on Tuesday who claims to have been using it for months to protect against Covid. I surmise he doesn’t have worms. I encountered a second person on line today when he claimed to have used it to treat his infection when he discovered that like many he couldn’t obtain remdesivir unless he was hospitalized.

The real FDA warns against its use. Where did all this nonsense start? Is it a result of the fake FDA. Facebook Doctors Ass.

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Pretty sure we are parties to some treaties that forbid conducting bogus medical “experiments” on prisoners . . .

The sad part is I am certain that the Arkansas Medical Board will have a really hard time bestirring itself to sanction this idiot. Both because it’s a state of gun-worshipping Qnut kooks who will absolutely threaten their lives and also because state medical boards generally really just don’t think it’s right to lift a doctor’s license just because of a little incompetency, quackery or kookery.

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“There’s a greater risk of dying from COVID than there is dying from the medication,"

Also true of a sugar cube, and at least the sugar cube won’t make you shit your guts out.

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Symptoms of Covid while on ivermectin may include loss of smell, body ache, dry cough, wet sharts.

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I actually know several Vets. Typically they are a lot brighter than many medical doctors. The criteria for entering Veterinary School are higher than for entering Medical School. The training is just as difficult. Most importantly their patients can’t tell them where it hurts.

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Not true! One of my worms is in intensive care right now with Covid. My entire worm farm is shut down.

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No question at all…

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It’s come to this? Even doctors are f_cked up maniacs?

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Anecdotal. Dismissed.

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OT, but since TPM hasn’t bothered to post a thread…


The Wall Street Journal reported
four U.S. Marines were killed in the attack, and at least three others were wounded.

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That’s referenced in the article: “the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance.” They’re a group of quack docs who’ve been around for over a year. I can’t find the recent news story right now, but that’s who they tracked it back to.

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Precisely.

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Well, here’s the thing. Doctors are like most other humans. They happen to have a skill set that might place them above the average Joe professionally, but said skill set doesn’t absolve them of any innate Asshole characteristics.

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Wet sharts… :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

That reminds me of this classic:

A kindergarten teacher is trying to explain to her class the definition of the word “definitely”. To make sure the students have a good understanding of the word, she asks them to use it in a sentence. The first student raised his hand and said, “The sky is definitely blue”. The teacher said, “Well, that isn’t entirely correct, because sometimes it’s grey and cloudy”.

Another student says, “Grass is definitely green.” The teacher again replies “If grass doesn’t get enough water it turns brown, so that isn’t really correct either.”

Another student raises his hand and asks the teacher “Do farts have lumps?” The teacher looked at him and said “No…but that isn’t really a question you want to ask in class discussion.” So the student replies, “Then I definitely shat my pants”

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