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“One of the most bizarre experiences of my life”: Inside the Ivermectin Cult

By William E. Lawhorn
January 21, 2022
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U.S. private insurance and Medicare plans may have paid up to $2.4 million for ivermectin prescriptions for COVID-19 in the week of August 12, 2021 alone. The total estimate for the last year ? $130 million. All for a drug that hasn’t been approved to treat the virus.

Ivermectin was developed in the 1970s to treat head lice and certain parasitic infections in humans and livestock. At the start of the pandemic, it was tested as a treatment for coronavirus, but trials were unsuccessful. Understandably, the CDC, FDA, and Infectious Diseases Society of America refused to approve the drug for the treatment of coronavirus.

That hasn’t stopped millions of people in the United States from becoming obsessed with ivermectin – and I just can’t understand the craze.

Some call it an “ivermectin cult.” I spoke to Jack Lawrence, a medical student at St George’s University in London, who was one of the first to discover serious problems in a large study supporting ivermectin against Covid. His findings, which showed just how full of screaming discrepancies the study was, went viral – but didn’t stop ivermectin devotees from seeking the drug.

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“Watching ivermectin become a culture war issue was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life,” he told me.

Ivermectin sales are booming. The CDC says 88,000 prescriptions for the horse dewormer, ivermectin, were dispensed in one week. In Windsor, Ont., last week, a Covid patient even attempted to smuggle a pill-filled stuffed animal past his doctors.

“Other drugs such as dexamethasone and fluvoxamine, which are also cheap generic drugs, have much stronger evidence than ivermectin and yet have not caught ivermectin’s attention.” said Jack Laurent.

So, who is fueling this craze?

It’s a combination of rogue doctors, celebrities, telehealth, and even insurance companies.

Medical personnel are not immune to conspiracies. Although there is a medical consensus around ivermectin, there is still a small group of rogue doctors who prescribe ivermectin, there are also those who are willing to cheat patients. Take the recent case in Arkansas, where inmates were given ivermectin without their knowledge or consent. They were told the pills were vitamins.

In the groups of anti-covid vaccines, these doctors are idolized. They are seen as crusaders against the government and big pharma. No matter how crazy their claims get, people are ready to go.

Another group of people involved in this hysteria are celebrities. Joe Rogan, who hosts the biggest podcast in the world, loves ivermectin. According to Joe, he and “200 members of Congress were treated with ivermectin for Covid”. After his remarks, more than 200 doctors wrote an open letter to Spotify, asking the company to fix the issue. Another proponent of the drug is UFC President Dana White, who is certain about ivermectin works but “they” keep the secret. Celebrities like this have huge platforms and are a vital part of the misinformation swarm.

But it’s not just individuals who support Ivermercin’s popularity. Telehealth companies are more than happy to meet the demand. They don’t just sell the drug, they heavily advertise it.

IN OTHER INFODEMIC NEWS

In Italy, an anti-vaccine leader who campaigned against the Green Collar has died of coronavirus. Luigi Marilli, 63, has led many protests against Italy’s “Green Pass”, which is compulsory to enter most shops, restaurants, public transport and hotels. The protests had particularly somber significance in Bergamo, where 9,000 people died of Covid in the spring of 2020. Marilli’s death was widely reported in the Italian press – which his supporters condemned as “too good an opportunity for the mainstream media misses it.” Many of them mourned him on social media without ever mentioning why he died.

Anti-Semitic flyers linking Jews to the anti-vaccine movement were found taped to lockers at several schools in Santa Monica, California. The posters had a Star of David and the words “anti-vaxx” engraved on it. Elsewhere in Los Angeles, posters claiming “every aspect of the Covid agenda is Jewish” were found in walkways and lawns. “At the heart of anti-vaccine, coronavirus skeptics and anti-Semitic ideologies is an entrenched belief that the world is controlled by nefarious elites, manipulating ordinary people for their own ends,” wrote our journalist Erica Hellerstein in her article on Covid antisemitism last year. . “Now hate groups seem to be exploiting this common ground to amplify the world’s oldest conspiracy theory – ‘The Jews are behind it all.’

While there has been a huge upsurge in belief in conspiracy theories during Covid, faith in God, religion and even any kind of “higher power” has diminished during this pandemic, according to a new study. A group of health and spirituality researchers from several German universities found that 5% of respondents said they lost faith in the first wave – and that number jumped to 21.5% in the second wave. It seems that this loss of trust in religious institutions is accompanied by a broader loss of trust in governments and their ability to control the virus.

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