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> It's pretty simple, the different realities like you said.

Agreed.

> Your info stream probably told you that people were gobbling horse goo and aquarium cleaner and dying by the droves, while threatening your grandmother

That's not even close to the truth. There were reliable reports of people admitted to hospital with this but nobody in their right mind thought "droves" of people were taking dangerous quantities of ivermectin or drinking bleach.



Seems reasonable to believe that some people read reports of gunshot victims dying because of ivermectin overdoses and believed it.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/07/politics/fact-check-oklahoma-...




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