but serious tweet saying you are not a horse. you are not a cow. seriously, y all, stop it. what does the situation look like in georgia right now from your perspective? yeah. we ve had a couple of people actually send us photos of the sheep version of ivermectin. it just troubles us. here they ll trust livestock animal as opposed to the effective vaccines that are out there? it blows our mind that they would play doctor, read a couple of posts and trust that as opposed to the hundreds of thousands and millions of doses that we ve been given of the vaccine. and they re not trusting that data. but they ll trust the internet because they know that that magic word ivermectin is out there and this must be the new thing. every question in american political life in the moment revolves around who you trust
look to anchors or some other crazy theory of cheering. there s another group that s legitimate. they make work three jobs, think it s expensive, may not speak english, whatever it may be. we just grind away every day. we re knocking on doors in dozens of communities, doing our best. it s really hard. this misinformation stuff makes life hard and, frankly, if it weren t so funny, it s tragic is the problem at the end of the day. yeah. and on top of that, there really delta really does appear and the data has been clear on this in our experience, it s much more transmissible, more insidious, and we have a lot of it going around this country. more than we re catching on our surveillance. and i ve seen data. vermont has seen cases go up, although still very low in the aggregate. israel is still battling this thing. they have a very high vaccinated population.
said that hasn t been checked but you re going to test it. i said supposing you brought the light in inside the body through the skin or in some other way. and i think you said you re going to test that, too. and then i see the disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. one minute. is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning. you see it gets in the lungs and does a tremendous number in the lupgs. it would be interesting to check that. that is still as shocking a year later, yes, the famous shine a light in your orifaces or inject bleach moment. again trump is looking for another silver bullet which he found in monochromal antibodies regeneron which can be somewhat effective according to the data we have. now trump got it after he contracted covid and called it, quote, a cure. it s not.
or three weeks. i mean, in a given year, i might get a handful of these calls from parents who are using it for body lice and whatnot. in the month of august alone, we re near 21 calls on this, everything from people wanting to take it to people who are taking it and having symptoms, and even health care professionals calling us about what the proper dose is. it s really shocking. and it s really alarming. a lot of us in the poison center world. yeah. and it strikes me that this is sort of paired, i think i don t want to make assumptions but it s paired with vaccine hesitancy. my sense is that this is not people are not getting worried about people are not going out to get ivermectin if they re vaccinated per se and there s obvious tension there between what people think is safe to consume based on clinical trial data when we ve got probably more clinical trial data on these vaccines than just about
control you with their tyrannical health orders won t tell you about. if you had this secret cure i have in my back pocket you would realize it s not that big of a deal and hence you would be free from their tyranny and mind coal. that s led to some fringe for untested and unproven treatment. sometimes that is based on early promiing data. this is all a complicated, fast, unspooling pandemic. people are figuring things out, scientists among them. then it s been taken upon all sorts of rational calculus and turned into a weird covid cult. we saw this first with the anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine. there were early promising studies about it. but then trumpers became obsessed with it in a freudian, neurotic way obsessed.