HORSE Pills?!

You’ve probably read headlines or heard news about people taking...  HORSE PILLS...  for COVID treatment.  Like most everyone who didn’t take horse pills, I thought this news was somewhere far, far beyond absurd.  One of those “we’re all dumber now just having heard this” moments.  Aren’t you left wondering how someone could possibly get to horse pills as a possible solution?  Did they just start indiscriminately grabbing any drug and taking it?  It’s like the more you try to dig into this logic, the less sense it makes.

Well here’s what I have found most news stories leave out of this story which barely makes any sense.

Ivermectin, which totally is a horse drug, actually is sometimes prescribed IN MUCH SMALLER CONCENTRATIONS to treat humans suffering from rosacea, head lice, and some parasitic worms.  Never for viruses, but at least now I know that some version of it is sometimes intended for human consumption.  It’s also available (IN HORSE DOSES) at farm supply stores.  I bet it probably costs less there, and I’ll bet you sometimes people do sneak a little horse medication for their own ailments from time to time.  I think we all just got a shocking little glimpse into the world of farm life homeopathy.

While I still think it’s as bat shit crazy as ever, I have to say I honestly do feel a little better knowing it is sometimes prescribed for people without tails, because this was one tough pill to swallow. 

I promise I did not go all this way just to make that stupid joke.  I bet the real truth is that whoever was doing this probably cut the pill into smaller pieces and took what looked like one regular-size pill.

It's all still incredibly wrongheaded, but at least now I can connect some of the dots, and I think some of those dots are connected to sensational journalism.  Did you know owners give their horses Tylenol, and there is an apple-flavored aspirin?  Well now I do, and trust me, the next time I see someone take Tylenol I’m going to say “That’s crazy - why are you taking Tylenol?  They give that stuff to horses!”