My dumb-ass cousin is taking the horse worm meds.

[3Hotdogs]

Says it works for her. She hasn't caught Rona.

I told her it works, until it doesn't.

She says she is getting it from a pharmacist (Torrence Ca.) who supports vaccines but is willing to sell it to her.

[RockRaven]

1. The best part of losing touch with dumb-assed cousins is not knowing stuff like this...

When I was a young kid I thought I would be close to all of my cousins forever... Nope, and it is not always bad that it is so. Times like these it is almost a relief.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. I have two first cousins in the world (they're brother and sister), and they're both cool as f***

All three of us went to Cal Poly, SLO. They're both engineering majors, the boy one lives in SLO and worked at Diablo Canyon NPP literally his entire career (recently retired) ... and is a singer and guitarist who's played in cover bands on the Central Coast since he was a Poly student in the late 70's/early 80's. He has two amazing kids, one of them is project manager for the ancient ass video game 'Everquest', which he's worked on since he was in college like 15 years ago.

The girl one is gorgeous, has 4 amazing kids, has lived in CA and Arizona in her life, and worked tons of different jobs but retired from a PG&E job a few years back as well. She's always been the most free spirit you could even imagine.

This is one of her kids ...

Another one of them (her oldest) runs a company that does solar panel installations in CA and AZ.

I can't even tell ya how much I love my cousins and all their 6 kids. They freaking rock, and they're arguably more liberal than me.

Just thought I'd share

[RockRaven]

8. Well, I've got 30+ first cousins and they are widely widely divergent... Some are cool as fuck, and

some are very very very not.

I'm beyond happy to have many of them in my life, and quite glad to be shot of some of them
-- for example: the rapist (as reported to me by the victim, not as ruled by the courts, for clarity), the worst sort of religious whackjobs, the ethnic bigots, etc.

I wish all my blood relatives were cool. They're not. That's okay. It would be a statistical anomaly/rarity if they were -- there's just too many for it to be so.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Say no more my friend :)

My ex-wife has like 40 first cousins, and most are LDS, so ... not really our kinda peeps for the most part.

I've just had my cousins in mind a lot recently cause their mom has been in hospital in Sonora, CA for 22 days now, had 3 surgeries over that time ... and for the first time in that entire period ... got out of ICU earlier today.

So I felt like sending them, and my Auntie ... some love. Even if it was just some internet props they'll never see

[Klaralven]

10. First cousins share an average of 12.5% of DNA -- so don't expect great similarity

Second cousins share 3.25% on average. Third share less than 1%.

So the genetic basis for kin-group similarity becomes weak rapidly. Where it exists, it must be cultural or due to cousin marriages.

[Srkdqltr]

2. Well. At least she will be worm free. Lol

That is just too funny and sad.

[yonder]

3. Wilbuuurrr.

[SoCalDavidS]

4. The Stupid, It Burns!!

Well, if she hasn't caught Covid, then it's obviously because the horse worm shit works. What about before she started taking it?

It astounds me that people will avoid getting vaccinated, but will take this horse worm shit.

[brewens]

5. When Zicam first came out I would have told you it worked miracles. I was delivering to a grocery

store one morning when I just had a cold coming on. I had seen their ads and grabbed some and used it. That cold went away within 36 hours when it seemed like it would be my usual nasty one. Then the next time, it had no effect. Or the time after that. Then after that I had another cold just clear up as if by magic. I'm told that's what can happen if you get a virus you've had before, or one real close to it. More likely as you get older and have had numerous viruses. Seems to make sense.

[Princess Turandot]

7. While there are some approved uses of ivermectin in humans..

.. it cannot legally be sold by a pharmacist without a prescription. (The drugs formulated for human aren't identical to the vet meds.)

The drug is in several heart worm prevention products. Is he selling her Heart Guard chewies under the counter?

It's too bad that it doesn't seem to be an ingredient used in flea collars...