An Ivermectin Influencer Died. Now His Followers Are Worried About Their Own 'Severe' Symptoms

[CatWoman]

Danny Lemoi took a daily dose of veterinary-grade ivermectin and told his thousands of followers to give the drug to children. He died of a common side effect of the medication.

Just before 7 am on March 3, Danny Lemoi posted an update in his hugely popular pro-ivermectin Telegram group, Dirt Road Discussions: “HAPPY FRIDAY ALL YOU POISONOUS HORSE PASTE EATING SURVIVORS !!!”

Hours later, Lemoi was dead.

For the last decade, Lemoi had taken a daily dose of veterinary ivermectin, a dewormer designed to be used on large animals like horses and cows. In 2021, as ivermectin became a popular alternative COVID-19 treatment among anti-vaxxers, he launched what became one of the largest Telegram channels dedicated to promotion the use of it, including instructions on how to administer ivermectin to children.

But despite Lemoi’s death, the administrators of his channel plan to continue pushing his misinformation—even as his followers share their own worrying possible side effects from taking ivermectin and some question the safety of the drug.

Lemoi, a heavy equipment operator who lived in Forster, Rhode Island, “passed away unexpectedly” on March 3, according to an online obituary post by his family last week. He was survived by his parents and brother. The obituary gave no details about the cause of his death.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mb89/ivermectin-danny-lemoi-death?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Javaman]

1. "passed away unexpectedly" was it really all that unexpected?

a fool with their health are soon parted.

[CaptainTruth]

16. Exactly.

[Pinback]

36. Ivermectin kept him alive for ten years.

But the liberal Fauci-huggers won’t tell you that!!1!

[Rural_Progressive]

42. Please tell me this is sarcasm, pretty hard to tell the difference these days.

[Sky Jewels]

62. I'd say that the smiling devil emoji is a big hint that it is sarcasm.

[Rural_Progressive]

65. I thought it might be a personal sort of emoji brand, hence the question

[Pinback]

67. Thanks. (sigh) (nt)

[Pinback]

68. Yep. The "!!1!" is one hint.

And the emoji is another.

I avoid the tag whenever possible.

[PatSeg]

47. Yep

Some Qanon follower is preparing such a response right now. They'll never accept a simple truth when there is a more convoluted, bizarre answer. Then they can say, "See we told you.....blah, blah, blah". Of all their fears, being wrong tops their list. They'll even put their lives and the lives of their families at grave risk just so they won't have to admit they were wrong.

[Ocelot II]

2. Another Darwin Award?

[3Hotdogs]

12. Looks like he died, childless. Yup.

Full Darwin Award.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

26. Super Darwin Award! This specimen literally dead hours after posting...all is well!

Cant top that, gave his life for the award! Hopefully the genes were not passed on much.

[Botany]

3. USDA, "Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19"

Here’s What You Need to Know about Ivermectin

The FDA has not authorized or approved ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 in humans or animals. Ivermectin is approved for human use to treat infections caused by some parasitic worms and head lice and skin conditions like rosacea.
Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19. Clinical trials assessing ivermectin tablets for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in people are ongoing.
Taking large doses of ivermectin is dangerous.
If your health care provider writes you an ivermectin prescription, fill it through a legitimate source such as a pharmacy, and take it exactly as prescribed.
Never use medications intended for animals on yourself or other people. Animal ivermectin products are very different from those approved for humans. Use of animal ivermectin for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in humans is dangerous.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19

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[Freddie]

5. My husband has a prescription ivermectin ointment for rosacea

Had to laugh when I saw what he was putting on his face every day. Another ointment he has works better.

[Botany]

7. A topical oinment is not the same as horse de-wormer

When did simple medical science become political?

[Freddie]

11. I know

We just realized what the ointment was during the whole controversy about ivermectin. Didn’t help the rosacea much either.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

28. When corporate media substituted flying pigs for logic, so a while ago.

[Botany]

34. When "they" started to gut public education, Reagan's letting Murdoch into America to start Fox,

... and then killed the fairness doctrine but the rich have used their money and power to cut down
liberals, education, and unions for years before that.

[Escurumbele]

31. But even topical ointments get in the blood.

I would look for an alternative, just in case.

[maxsolomon]

48. I had one, too. Let it go because of the cost with my UHC insurance.

The theory is that Ivermectin stops your skin's overreaction to the Demodex mites that live in your eyebrows & eyelashes. I thought that it worked.

Now I just use Azelaic Acid.

[Aristus]

4. Man, oh man, what an embarrassing way to die.

Dude, seriously; the Spirit of Good Sense really, really doesn’t like it when you piss in his face like that!

[Beautiful Disaster]

6. He was using it for a decade?! Yikes.

[allegorical oracle]

15. Maybe he believed he had a ton of worms. Just saying. nt

[jaxexpat]

43. The worms in his head told him. Would they lie?

[Farmer-Rick]

20. He had congestive heart failure after catching Lyme disease

He started taking horse doses of it back then. It enlarged and engorged his heart.

If he would have just stopped using it, he could have survived.

[AllaN01Bear]

29. i have congestive heart failure and am on people meds for that . i also have

an enlarged heart as well and live with it.

[Farmer-Rick]

46. I hope you stay healthy

Glad to hear you are staying away from those animal medicines.

[AllaN01Bear]

60. dont belive in that nonsense.

[PatSeg]

50. Yes, that is really disturbing

Why on earth was he taking it that long (pre-COVD)? What did he think he was accomplishing?

[Warpy]

53. He died without intestinal parasites, what else do you want?

The stuff is fantastic if you've got roundworms or other nasty intestinal parasites.

Unless he was in the habit of eating raw sausage from really dodgy sources, I have no idea why he'd start taking the stuff in 2013 unless he liked the taste or he really was desperate for that Darwin Award.

[3catwoman3]

8. Can we say that veterinary grade ivermectin is safe for horses...

…but not for a horse’s ass?

[JanLip]

13. Good one!!

LOL

[jaxexpat]

44. That......would be catty.

[Norbert]

9. You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

[flying_wahini]

10. An older woman late 70's who is a checkout cashier at my local grocery store

returned to work after a couple of months of being ill admitted that she was ‘real, real sick’
after taking Ivermectin for a few weeks. She ended up on Dialysis for a few months.
She damn near died.

She had been crowing about getting her hands on it during the initial months and how she was ‘immune’.
It was all I could do to keep from asking if it was worth it.

[AverageOldGuy]

14. I'm heartbroken

[Achilleaze]

17. Republican lies have real consequences for their suckers

Guy got suckered by GOP lies. Suckered others with the same lies. Now lies 6-feet under.

Moral: Don't be a sucker. Avoid Republican lies.

[OMGWTF]

19. Avoid Republicans. Period.

[Celerity]

18. Ivermectin, it's got what horses crave! It's got electrolytes! The 'Rona Mutilator!

[DFW]

21. If he was taking daily doses of ivermectin, then I have to ask the question:

To WHOM, exactly, was his death "unexpected?"

I'd think any doctor would have changed that to "Lemoi having passed away as was long expected, given that he was slowly poisoning himself."

[Ocelot II]

23. I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did.

But at least he probably didn't have any horse parasites.

[DFW]

27. That's one of the worst "half-full" arguments I've ever heard.

I'm sure his family will use it with a straight face, too.

[dchill]

22. A phrase occurs: Enough to kill a horse.

[Johnny2X2X]

24. Next door neighbor took Ivermectin

Really a sweet lady in her late 60s, had bladder cancer that came back. People in her church group told her Ivermectin cures cancer, so she told the doctor she wasn't doing chemo anymore because of the side effects. She died a few months later in Fall of 2021. Really sad.

And my thought is that she might have gotten Covid near the end too, but the family didn't say so, but the last I talked to her she was coughing. I don't know all the particulars of her case, but just what she told me, that she was stopping chemo because of side effects and trying Ivermectin and then died a few months later. Maybe she was terminal regardless, I don't know. But maybe the chemo would have worked and she's dead because she stopped.

The pushing of Ivermectin by people who should know better has had awful consequences. Real people are dead because of it, real people who have families, friends, and neighbors who miss them.

[wnylib]

25. Parents giving it to children should be charged with child abuse.

And lose custody of the children.

[rubbersole]

57. Yep.

[ismnotwasm]

30. I gave it to a patient with a maggot infection in his scalp

(Yes, it was awful) that thought often ran through my mind when I saw that ..certain..people wanted to take it for a virus

[Wonder Why]

59. In his scalp? And I thought having them as neighbors was bas but

having them watching Fox News while in my scalp would surely result in trying Ivermectin for sure.

[PatrickforB]

32. One cannot separate a fool from his folly.

How, we must ask, can people possibly believe in things like ivermectin and Jewish space lasers and pedo-pizza parlors?

While I hope Lemoi rests in peace, and wish the best for his family, he acted stupidly - he essentially killed himself with poison to spite those who believe in vaccines. Hard to get your head around such irrational behavior.

[Snackshack]

33. This is almost...

As tragic as the guy who built the rocket to ride in so he could prove once and for all that the earth was flat...he only made 1 flight....

[Grins]

35. Journal of the American Medical Association

20 Feb 2023
Journal of the American Medical Association

Findings: In this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled platform trial including 1206 US adults with COVID-19 during February 2022 to July 2022, the median time to sustained recovery was 11 days in the ivermectin group, and 11 days in the placebo group. In this largely vaccinated (84%) population, the posterior probability that ivermectin reduced symptom duration by more than 1 day was less than 0.1%.

LESS than a tenth of 1%? Go on...

Among those receiving ivermectin, 34 were hospitalized, died, or had urgent or emergency care visits compared with 36 receiving placebo. In the ivermectin group, 1 participant died and 4 were hospitalized; 2 participants were hospitalized in the placebo group and there were no deaths.

Meaning: These findings do not support the use of ivermectin among outpatients with COVID-19.

Science; amiright?

[central scrutinizer]

37. Does this qualify him for a Herman Cain award?

He may not have died from Covid but he did die from Covid misinformation and promoted same.

[kairos12]

38. Trash taking itself out.

[Initech]

39. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Wicked Blue]

40. AT LEAST he didn't have worms

[Hortensis]

41. He was 50 years old, no wife or children mentioned in his obituary,

survived by his parents and other relatives. It makes no mention of this activity.

https://www.pratagallogly.com/obituary/Daniel-Lemoi

RIP.

[TheRickles]

49. To be fair, though, if you do something every day for 10 years and then die, it's a stretch

to consider that thing to be the cause of death. So unless more information comes out, it feels like an unwarranted conclusion to say the two are connected. It's tempting to make the link and it's fun to pile on, maybe, but it's not truly logical.

[intheflow]

51. Yes. He had a family history of heart disease,

and his death has been listed as due to natural causes (though there's been no official release of how he died). It's likely to have contributed to his death, but 10 years is a long time to be on a med (even a horse med) and state conclusively that that is what caused his death.

[getagrip_already]

52. Administrators of his channel?

What channel is it?

If it was a monetary assett, and he died without a will, any channel should be tied up in probate. Nobody not explicitly designated as a partner or employee should be running it after his death me thinks.

[onecaliberal]

54. Fucked around, found out.

I don't know what to say about these people that are committing suicide basically.

[tanyev]

55. Sometimes it takes awhile to get to the Finding Out phase.

[gibraltar72]

56. FAFO

[rubbersole]

58. Bummer. Neigh.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

61. For this thread

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Sky Jewels]

64. There were early reports of people taking livestock dewormer ivermectin and

losing the linings of their intestines. Thinking about that really, really grosses me out.

[AZSunDevil]

66. Wild

This is wild. taking medication like that for no reason

[Vinca]

69. On the bright side, at least he died worm free.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

74. ...

[Cha]

70. The side effects of Ivermectin

dizziness.
loss of appetite.
nausea.
vomiting.
stomach pain or bloating.
diarrhea.
constipation.
weakness.

TY, Cat.. does it say how old he was? I saw his pic before I was Blocked by a "Sign UP" page and he looked about 40.

[CatWoman]

71. his obit says he was 50

[Cha]

72. TY.. yeah, that's more like it.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

73. just googled Danny Lemoi...his followers treated him like he was a medical doctor

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

75. Believers deny ivermectin killed ivermectin influencer

When some members of the group blamed Lemoi's death on ivermectin, they were criticized in the Telegram channel; their fellow group members claimed they were spreading misinformation.

​​"No one can convince me that he died because of ivermectin," one member wrote this week. "He ultimately died because of our failed western medicine which only cares about profits and not the cure."

Despite Lemoi's death, administrators said this week the Telegram channel would live on, and the group is attracting new members who continue to take ivermectin despite suffering serious side effects.

https://boingboing.net/2023/03/13/believers-deny-ivermectin-killed-ivermectin-influencer.html

[MuseRider]

76. Well, I just wormed my 3 horses

if anyone needs a boost they do not use the entire tube so...I gotcha covered!

[ProfessorPlum]

77. Oh no! anyway . . .

[Skittles]

78. these people need to be studied to find out what makes up these fucking morons

it's a fucking ANIMAL DEWORMER fer chrissakes