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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by kenjackson on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:03PM (#30196096)
Those aren't examples of the media gaslighting people. Those are about the CDC and FDA saying they aren't effective (or not proven effective). You're conflating the media with scientific advisory boards -- and notably those under Trump's own watch at the time.

Media gas lighting would be if the CDC/FDA/etc said that Ivermectin was effective and the media saying it wasn't or not reporting on it.

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by steveylang on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:30PM (#30196521)
The media gaslighting part is continuing to call ivermectin a horse medicine to disparage it, when it is also approved as anti-parasite medication for humans (if not for COVID.)
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by notahacker on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:24PM (#30198287)
People were ordering from livestock suppliers in preparations designed to treat horse conditions, to the extent stockists started running out and started demanding people provide evidence they actually owned a horse to buy it. I mean, dog food is just meat from the same animals humans eat, but it's still a news story if people decide they'd rather eat Pedigree Chum than take nutrition advice from doctors.
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