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My mother, born and raised in Norway, fucking believes this shit about Ivermectin. Line... Why???
Its a cancer that is spreading across the world. My dad thinks covid isn't real but also ivermectin is a wonder drug that the government tried to hide for some reason.
I think it's, at least partly, related to lead, and the amount of lead they inhaled in the 70's and 80's.
I also remember my mother telling me "don't believe everything you read on the internet"-talk all throughout the 90's. I tell her this now, and she literally told me last week that I must stop reading anti-propaganda...... 🤣🤣 I asked her what that is, and she has no way of describing it, just talking about anti-propaganda. So, facts?
My mother passed away last summer. While cleaning out her house we found a half used bottle of ivermectin injectable solution. Like I’m pretty sure my mother bought vet supplies and was injecting herself.
They've forgotten all the things they chanted to us aa kids; "don't believe everything you read online."
Especially if she can sort of read English but isn't too proficient, I've noticed that type goes harder for all the shit.
And like someone pointed out, there's a pretty well established pipeline from woowoo spirituality into right wing garbage.
My mom reads clickbait titles and thinks she knows the entire story.
A few years ago there was a clickbait title that Cracker Barrel was closing their restaurants, and she told me they were going out of business. I found the story, and it said that they were closing a few stores, but they were opening up a whole lot more. Cracker Barrell wasn't going out of business. All she had read was the title, and concluded they were completely going out of business.
To this day, whenever we pass a Cracker Barrell, she either repeats that she read they were going out of business, or she wonders aloud when they be closing that location, since they are going out of business. When I try to correct her, she says she read it, and "You think you know everything."
No, Mom, I don't know everything, but I know not to believe clickbait headlines.
On the positive side, she has always despised HitlerPig with a white-hot passion. She hated him long before he ran for president anyway, but she became really serious after the Pussy-Grabber tape. After that, for a couple of years, just the mention of his name would bring on a 20 minute rant, starting with "I dont know how any woman could vote for that man..."