Trust the People who Lie to You to Your Face

Today, for fun, I told friends I was taking ivermectin. One sent me a link to a ridiculous anti-ivermectin news story. My wife says Facebook, or as the French call it, Fesse-Livre, is full of stories criticizing Southerners and implying we’re so stupid we can’t tell the difference between horses and people.

We are also being criticized for trusting God more than yankees and not being as scared of death!

What a world we live in. The gloves are coming off. People from godless areas are finally admitting they hate Christianity and consider it a barrier to progress.

The Church of Satan just came out against the new Texas abortion law. Too fitting, and long overdue. Will leftists be shocked and outraged? Bet not. Why should anyone pretend leftism and Satan aren’t inextricably joined?

I can’t believe the disinformation that’s out there. I’m not calling it misinformation, because misinformation can be unintentional. What we’re seeing now are deliberate lies. Let me list a few.

1. Ivermectin is a horse medicine. No, it’s a Japanese drug, invented for human use in the 1970’s. It’s discoverer, Satoshi Omura, received the Nobel Prize for giving the world ivermectin. It is credited with helping billions of people, and many Africans take it year after year for periodic deworming. People came first. Horses came later.

2. Horse paste and other veterinary preparations contain “different forms” of ivermectin, compared to human medications. No, there is only one form of ivermectin It’s a combination of two nearly identical compounds. Different preparations contain other ingredients that vary. Fried chicken and chicken soup are different dishes, but there is only one type of chicken.

3. Horse paste is “toxic” to humans. No, it isn’t. It comes in relatively large portions meant for 1500-pound animals, but it’s not toxic. If you take a dose for a horse, you might have digestive and central nervous system symptoms, but that’s because you took too much, not because the drug is toxic. The web says ivermectin is well tolerated even in tenfold overdoses. If you’re taking enough ivermectin to harm yourself seriously, you were probably going to die soon anyway, because you may not be bright enough to look after yourself.

4. Ivermectin is a sketchy, risky drug that may have unanticipated effects in people. No, it has been approved by the FDA for decades. The coronavirus vaccines, though blessed by Saint Fauci, are not FDA-approved.

5. Ivermectin overdose cases are flooding hospitals, and a hospital in Oklahoma had to turn away gunshot victims because people with ivermectin tummy aches were filling the ER. The Oklahoma tale is so facially absurd, it’s amazing anyone bought into it. That being said, it was first vetted and published by Rolling Stone, the same magazine whose editors thought Hunter Thompson, who never broke an actual news story, was a journalist. The short version: the doctor who made the claim lied. The whole story is a fabrication, and the hospital in Oklahoma has disavowed it. Leftists keep referring to it on social media anyway. There are no hospitals anywhere filling up with ivermectin overdoses. It’s just too hard to overdose with ivermectin. Hospitals never turn gunshot victims away. Why would anyone think that was even possible? Haven’t people heard of lawyers?

6. Poison control hotlines are being flooded with overdose calls. Not even close to true. The number of people who are calling hotlines about ivermectin is considerably higher than it was before COVID, but if you look at the actual numbers of 2021 calls, they look like 13 and 23, not 15,000 and 50,000. I have never managed a poison control hotline, but I am willing to guess that even the most backward state can handle a couple of dozen calls in a year. Notable: leftist journalists who are making the hotline claims are carefully avoiding claiming the callers have overdosed or required treatment. In all likelihood, nearly all of the calls are from nervous people who just want to be reassured. “My idiot husband wants to take KILLER HORSE MEDICINE!”

7. Ivermectin has lots of dangerous interactions with other drugs. Misleading. You can look this issue for yourself. Ivermectin has a bunch of possible, non-significant interactions, plus one interaction which could be serious. The big concern is interaction with certain blood thinners. It’s not like you’re going to combust spontaneously if you try ivermectin on the same day you take Ex-lax or Claritin.

To sum up:

1. Ivermectin is an old, commonly-used drug.
2. Ivermectin was created for use in humans, and the creator won a Nobel Prize for improving treatment of infectious diseases.
3. Ivermectin has been used to treat human parasitic infections billions of times.
4. Ivermectin is FDA-approved, unlike COVID vaccines.
5. The ivermectin in horse medicine is the same as the ivermectin in every other type of ivermectin preparation. There is only one ivermectin.
6. It’s hard to overdose on ivermectin, and the symptoms are generally mild and short-lived.
7. The non-ivermectin ingredients in horse paste are harmless.
8. Africans take ivermectin routinely, and they buy it over the counter.
9. Poison control call centers are not being swamped by ivermectin overdose calls.
10. Hospitals are not filling up with people who overdosed on ivermectin.
11. Ivermectin interacts with a few drugs, but most interactions are not significant. Blood thinners are the main problem; they may work too well in the presence of ivermectin. If you’re taking other medications, maybe you should avoid ivermectin.

I’m not playing doctor. I don’t recommend you try this stuff, nor do I know whether it helps people beat COVID. There is a reason why they make doctors study for 10 years. They know things the rest of us do not. Maybe there is a reason why you shouldn’t take ivermectin. I’m just criticizing outright lies that should not be appearing in major news outlets. I’m not a doctor, but if someone says penicillin causes herpes, I’m more than qualified to say it’s a lie.

Here’s a question: if the social imps are hellbent on banning misinformation, why aren’t they banning lies about ivermectin? You can be suspended from Twitter for saying masks don’t work, which is essentially true. Why are the ivermectin lies still published on Facebook? I wonder how drug companies that sell this life-transforming antiparasitic drug feel about that.

Answer: it was never about truth or protecting the public. It was always about controlling the human race and limiting our information so we could be steered to the left. America is turning into North Korea. Leftists have certain misguided views about the world, and they are using any excuse they can to censor opposing viewpoints without regard for their validity.

We don’t actually need information censorship. It’s Un-American, and it’s dangerous. We should let Nazis and anti-vaxxers and Antifa thugs and Christians say whatever they want online, as long as their words don’t fit into traditionally recognized types of legitimately dangerous language. It’s okay to prevent pedophiles from running forums where they exchange tips on abducting kids, and it would be okay to prevent Antifa from using Facebook to organize the violent gatherings for which it is so well known (fat chance), but we don’t really need Uncle Zuckerberg to boot people for promoting drugs that may or may not work, or for saying coronavirus is a hoax.

We don’t need protection from each other. We need protection from tyrants like Uncle Zuckerberg. We used to consider that self-evident. Our Declaration of Independence actually uses the term “self-evident” to describe our rights.

What’s self-evident to people of quality is imperceptible to idiocrats.

Consider the terrible things that might happen if we let people go on social media and say what they wanted about election integrity, coronavirus, and so on. We don’t have to wonder what would happen, because people used to do things like that all the time, and the world kept turning. We used to permit a thing we called “debate,” and we counted on it to lead us in the direction of truth. Remember that? Now a bunch of young nerds open and close the valve, determining what the public gets to see. We have wanton prior restraint, and “prior restraint” is a phrase that describes a great evil courts interpreting the First Amendment have worked to restrict. Every court in the land agrees that prior restraint by government is evil, yet somehow it’s okay when a pimply kid who watches too much science fiction does it from a cubicle in Palo Alto.

Leftists are still allowed to disseminate misinformation and disinformation, but now the opposing voices that countered their craziness are muffled. That’s dangerous. Social media sites are becoming like North Korean rallies. You know how tht works. “What did you think of the Supreme Leader’s speech?” “I thought it was simply fantastic! Everyone here agrees!”

Nitpickers may say it’s okay to restrain speech on the web, because the First Amendment only prevents the government from doing it, and we are still relatively free to say things elsewhere, including the real world. That’s stupid. Social media sites are BECOMING the real world. They are the places where most people have the most power to express themselves effectively. We are almost constantly plugged in. We post photos of our lunches so billions of people can see them. The things we say in the real world, in contrast, are heard by nearly no one.

A right that can’t be exercised effectively is a fiction. It’s a gun filled with blanks.

The tech kidz are working day and night to amplify the voices of individuals, beyond what anyone could have imagined 30 years ago. Trouble is, they’re only doing it for the voices they like. And the people doing the judging are maladjusted, unethical, ignorant, and utterly without compassion and humility. The tech companies aren’t hiring 50-year-old tongue-talking Christians from South Dakota. They’re not hiring NRA members. They’re not hiring history professors. They’re hiring sexually confused young people with day-glo hair and lots of stylish hardware inserted in their faces and genitalia. They’re hiring people who grew up inside their smartphones. A typical 25-year-old has spent so much time looking down, it’s a wonder any of them can raise their heads.

What good would the First Amendment have been to any of the Founding Fathers had their enemies been given free publication and distribution of their ideas while they, themselves, were denied access to printing presses and even town cryers?

It’s an interesting thing. Satan has taken another of God’s ideas and copied it.

Think of this. You have never really seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted the world. Everything you perceive is inside your head. You are perceiving information carried to your brain by nerves made of meat.

Your brain, where all your perceptions actually are, is blind and deaf. It’s in a dark cavity covered with bone and flesh. Light and sound can’t get to your brain. Let’s say you think you see a tree. It’s not a tree. It’s your brain’s best effort at showing you the tree, based on the photons that bounce off the tree and reach your sensors. You’re seeing your brain’s representation of photons that came to you from the tree.

Light doesn’t go through your optic nerves. If you could put little cameras in your head and film your optic nerves, you would see they’re dark. They’re not lit up by light as it passes through. Light stops at your retinas.

What you perceive is really a bunch of interpretations. Your body interprets stimuli and presents its interpretations to you, so you “see” what you think is light, and you “hear” what you think is sound.

You’re not able to perceive the world. You perceive representations of the world through a complicated piece of wet electronic machinery.

Phones work the same way. They are little machines that allow us to look into a man-made realm. We even treat this realm as though it were a place. We call it things like “cyberspace” and “cyberia.” It’s not a real place. It has no dimensions, so it’s not a space at all. It doesn’t have a temperature or an atmosphere. It has no physical existence.

Through the flesh machine God gave you, you can perceive things that happen in the real world. Satan has used computers and phones to put a layer of filtering between the machine and the world. Thanks to him, increasingly, you are only able to perceive part of what’s happening. You’re looking through screens that filter out a lot of things Satan doesn’t want you to be aware of.

Before we started relocating to cyperspace, there was a limit to how much Satan could restrict your awareness of things that happened in the real world. Now that there are filters between you and the world, he has much more control.

God gave us 5 physical senses, three dimensions to live in, and two dimensions of sight. Satan gave us two cyber-senses and only the two dimensions of sight to live in, and we are coming to prefer these to the 5.

Our electronic screens and speakers are choke points through which many of our perceptions have to pass. The greater the percentage of our perceptions that goes through them, the more our perceptions can be censored and shaped.

You can’t read Donald Trump’s tweets. There are a lot of videos about coronavirus which you will never be allowed to see. The most popular preacher on earth can only be seen on Youtube through a tiny number of videos, because Youtube didn’t like it when he showed he believed God was against homosexuality, following a fundamental tenet of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. On the other hand, you can read that Pete Buttagieg and his anal sex partner adopted a pair of unfortunate twins. You can read that white people are evil. You can catch up on the Taliban’s tweets, even though they just went into a church in Kabul and murdered the Christians. Even though they recently punished a homosexual by gang-raping him.

It’s as though we lived in Plato’s cave, and Satan and Keith Olbermann were standing outside making shadow puppets.

The dissemination of lies and the suppression of truth have become so brazen, it seems there is not much further for us to fall. It should have been expected. This is exactly where control of speech leads. A bunch of men who had no smartphones and no thought leaders knew this in 1776, but 245 years later, we can’t figure it out.

I’m planning on taking more ivermectin, and I pray for the rapture to come soon every day. This world needs a good pressure washing.