Omicron Variant Spurs Marjorie Taylor Greene to Attack Doctors Who Won't Prescribe ivermectin

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene urged her followers on Twitter to sue doctors who don't prescribe ivermectin as a COVID treatment amid the newly detected Omicron variant.

In a Twitter thread on Saturday, Greene accused doctors who refuse to recommend ivermectin to COVID patients of taking part in "politics that is killing people."

Link to tweet

"Ivermectin, the 'Wonder drug' from Japan, has a long safe history of saving lives especially among the poor all over the world," Greene claimed on Twitter. "If you had a loved one die from Covid, and they were not allowed to take Ivermectin or monoclonal antibodies, you might have a wrongful death suit in your hands."

Link to tweet

The Georgia Republican congresswoman also said that Africans have tried Ivermectin as a way to treat COVID "for decades."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/omicron-variant-spurs-marjorie-taylor-greene-to-attack-doctors-who-wont-prescribe-ivermectin/ar-AARcRfp

Hey shit for brains the Omicron variant is from Africa.

After looking at MTG's Tweets I think I need a shower.

[lapfog_1]

1. Ivermectin has been used for years

in Africa... because it is a wonder drug for treating... wait for it... parasites.

The miracle in Africa could be due to...

a) not having as many elderly people with weakened immune symptoms

b) spending much more time outdoors (ventilation is an important key to stopping the virus)

c) getting more sunlight (see reason b) which increases the amount of vitamin D in the blood stream

and

d) African people MAY (repeat MAY) have a genetic resistance to serious COVID. The counter to this is that many African Americans are just as likely to get COVID as non-African Americans. OTOH, the increase in African American mortality may simply be due to unequal access to medical attention.

Exactly NONE of this has anything to do with Ivermectin and, to date, there is not a single double blind large scale scientific trial that shows any efficacy as either a treatment (early or late stage infection) or as a prophylactic.

The only study I have read about for Ivermectin that showed anything related to COVID is that it was effective in killing the virus in vitro (test tube) and then only in concentrations that would be very unsafe in humans. Just like bleach. Or probably a 1000 other drugs / chemicals.

She needs to leave the science to scientists and STFU.

[BlueIdaho]

6. The African Miracle may be due to

Under reporting deaths.

[lapfog_1]

8. possibly that too

although by now 2 years almost into the pandemic this is less likely to be the case.

[BlueIdaho]

10. I'm sure there are a variety of reasons

Why Africa seems to be defying the odds. This short article spotlights several. Funny how they never mention Ivermectin…

https://news.northeastern.edu/2021/06/11/why-has-africa-suffered-fewer-covid-19-deaths-than-predicted/

[Septua]

13. You are correct.

No telling how many cases or deaths have occurred.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55674139

[Ms. Toad]

2. She said ivermectin has been used for decades.

NOT that it was used for decades to treat COVID.

She's not using the brains she was born with - BUT - her statement that they have used Ivermectin for years is not an example of that character trait.

[SCantiGOP]

7. Leeches were used for centuries

But they are not recommended now except for Republicans.

[jmowreader]

19. Look into hirudotherapy

Leeches are a miracle drug for reestablishing blood flow and for cleaning out abscesses.

They got their bad name from the era when doctors believed all diseases were caused by the body producing too much blood.

[Ms. Toad]

28. Actually, there are current medical uses for leeches.

https://www.popsci.com/medicine-leeches-blood-surgery/

Despite leeches’ historic ties to medical quackery, they do have a legitimate place in modern medicine as a sort of reverse transfusion in cases of imbalanced blood circulation. While ye olde physicians thought leeches could cure epilepsy and even large bruises, the contemporary use of leeches is mostly limited to microsurgeons who reattach body parts like fingers, toes, thumbs, ears, lips, noses, or even bits of scalp.

One of the first times leeches were used this way was in 1985 on a five-year-old whose ear was bitten off by a dog. A few days after surgeons sewed the organ back on, “it turned blackish blue from blood congestion,” according to an account in The New York Times. After failed efforts to drain the blood-filled ear with anti clotting agents and small cuts, Harvard physician Joseph Upton attached two leeches and “the ear perked up right away.” Twenty years later, in 2005, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved leeches as medical devices for use in plastic surgery (making them, along with maggots, the first living creature the agency green lit for clinical use).

[iemanja]

3. If Covid is a hoax

Why do they want ivermectin?

[GoCubsGo]

4. They used it "for decades" to treat a disease that has only

only been around for two years? Holy shit. Her stupidity is mind boggling, but nowhere near as mind-boggling as the fact that enough people were willing to elect this imbecile to Congress. And, will likely give this fucking moron another term.

[Celerity]

5. Has Twitter just given up all blocking of false, terribly dangerous lies and disinfo?

How does this vile piece of dogshit still even have a Twitter account??????????

[Hekate]

9. She is a very horse-faced woman; seems like horse medicine might be appropriate in her case

Bobert, Gym Jordan, et al. are pretty much horses’ asses, so they should also give the ol’ horse dewormer a try.

Not so much for everyone else.

[Raine]

11. Why not just let them have it, then the truth about it will come out. 🤔 nt

[cadoman]

21. because we don't allow people to kill themselves just because they hate science

It's the same reason we mandate seat belts.

MTG's "thinking" is dangerous and we have a human responsibility to block it and make sure people are safe and make the correct, scientifically verified medical options of masking and vaccination.

[rockfordfile]

12. She's not only a un-American pos, but a idiot to go along with that.

[Septua]

16. She said masking and vaccines...

..don't stop Covid. Speed limits, seatbelts and airbags don't STOP auto accident deaths and injuries either but they reduce them.

[DFW]

14. Is it possible for a whole district in northern Georgia to be not playing with a full deck?

To elect someone like her to Congress, they would have to have the Three Stooges be their electricians, Clark Griswold as their Surgeon General, Toody and Muldoon as their top law enforcement officers, and George of the Jungle as their Secretary of Education.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Where did MTG get her medical degree? Where is she a licensed MD?

[Initech]

18. From the institute of "I Did My Own Research!" and her specialty is "But I Trust My Immune System!".

[cadoman]

22. and she minored in "Freedumb"

[ProfessorGAC]

25. I'd Bet $10 That...

...she's fully vaxxed.

[Initech]

17. I'd love to tell these idiots where they can go shove their horse paste...

[jmowreader]

20. Okay Marjorie, we'll make a deal with you

You seem hell-bent on getting COVID. When you do, we’ll give you all the ivermectin you want. If it works, you should be fit as a fiddle in no time. But if it doesn’t work, we get to decide what to put on your headstone. (Don’t worry. We’ll just put someone else’s name on it to cut down the problem of Democrats getting arrested for public urination.)

[3auld6phart]

23. Why

has this imbecile not been committed yet? A total
looney. Georgia State Hospital has a ward for her.

[LiberalFighter]

24. Has Twitter suspended her account? If not, why not?

[malaise]

26. Could she show us her medical credentials

That is all!

[Progressive Jones]

27. Could someone please duct tape this trolls mouth shut? nt