A quick thread:
It’s hard to explain just how radicalized ivermectin and antivax Facebook groups have become in the last few weeks.
They’re now telling people who get COVID to avoid the ICU and treat themselves, often by nebulizing hydrogen peroxide.
So, how did we get here?
It’s hard to explain just how radicalized ivermectin and antivax Facebook groups have become in the last few weeks.
They’re now telling people who get COVID to avoid the ICU and treat themselves, often by nebulizing hydrogen peroxide.
So, how did we get here?
Facebook bans explicit antivaxx groups, but they don't ban groups for quack "cures" that antivaxxers push instead.
So in the last couple of months, Ivermectin groups have become the new hubs for antivaxx messaging.
But there's a problem: Ivermectin, by itself, isn’t working.
So in the last couple of months, Ivermectin groups have become the new hubs for antivaxx messaging.
But there's a problem: Ivermectin, by itself, isn’t working.
The number of people in these ivermectin groups have exploded.
So has the number of people in the groups who have contracted COVID, since the groups are largely filled with unvaccinated people seeking "alternative therapies."
So they developed a makeshift “protocol.”
So has the number of people in the groups who have contracted COVID, since the groups are largely filled with unvaccinated people seeking "alternative therapies."
So they developed a makeshift “protocol.”
Obviously, keep taking the ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, the ivermectin groups say.
But also gargle iodine. Buy a nebulizer and inhale food-grade hydrogen peroxide.
Anything but the vaccine.
But also gargle iodine. Buy a nebulizer and inhale food-grade hydrogen peroxide.
Anything but the vaccine.
As they’re home self-medicating, antivaxxers are furious that friends and family won’t be administered ivermectin at the hospital.
So they’ve developed directions on how to get loved ones out of ICUs: put them in hospice care, then get them the miracle cures from YouTube.
So they’ve developed directions on how to get loved ones out of ICUs: put them in hospice care, then get them the miracle cures from YouTube.
They’ve developed elaborate conspiracy theories about doctors and nurses in the process.
They believe ventilators and remdesivir are secretly drowning patients’ lungs, not COVID itself.
QAnon boards have begun calling hospitals to harass workers for not prescribing ivermectin.
They believe ventilators and remdesivir are secretly drowning patients’ lungs, not COVID itself.
QAnon boards have begun calling hospitals to harass workers for not prescribing ivermectin.
Ivermectin Facebook is a wildly dark scene, an inverted reality where medical consensus is an elaborate conspiracy to kill you and random people on Facebook have the secret cure.
As Dr. Aditi Nerurkar tells me, "They’re starting to target the messengers—nurses and doctors.”
As Dr. Aditi Nerurkar tells me, "They’re starting to target the messengers—nurses and doctors.”
Here's the full story about "vigilante medicine" on ivermectin Facebook.
Antivaxxers are starting to wrap doctors and ICUs into their dark conspiracy theories, as they suffer at home with ad-hoc COVID treatments that don't work.
I hope you read it.
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
Antivaxxers are starting to wrap doctors and ICUs into their dark conspiracy theories, as they suffer at home with ad-hoc COVID treatments that don't work.
I hope you read it.
nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
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