OASIS FORUM Post by the Golden Rule. GoldTent Oasis is not responsible for content or accuracy of posts. DYODD.

CATCHY HEADLINE EH ? BUT THE HUMAN PILL WERE APPROVED

Jeff Childers

In last week’s special legislative session, Texas tackled one of the wormiest issues going, and Lone Star progressives cried themselves to sleep last night. The Dallas Morning News ran the story headlined, “Over-the-counter ivermectin headed to Texas pharmacies as bill goes to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Think about it: they want over-the-counter experimental mRNA jabs, but not Nobel prize-winning, over-the-counter ivermectin. You try explaining it.

On Wednesday, Secretary Kennedy met with Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the state’s progress in advancing medical freedom. Abbot had added the ivermectin issue to his recent special legislative session (called to handle redistricting), and late last week, the Texas House sent up the pill bill to Abbot for signature. t wasn’t easy. You’d think, at this point, and after half the country gobbling the pills and paste like it was going out of style, ivermectin would be less controversial. But no. The bill was opposed by the Texas Medical Association and endured hours of profanity-laced, high-stakes, “raucous” floor debate. For instance, one representative called ivermectin supporters “jackasses,” and at another point, the bill’s sponsor shut down debate saying, “Not today, Satan.”

Tennessee became the first state to make the drug easily available in 2022. Since then, Arkansas, Idaho, and Louisiana have joined the anti-parasitic party— and now, Texas.

The significance of this shift —even if only in five states so far— cannot be overstated. These five states, now including one of the nation’s biggest, are rejecting the FDA and charting their own medical course. This could only have happened after the profound loss of trust in the institutions fueled by the pandemic.

If the FDA’s real pandemic mission had really been about protecting health, then it should have let physicians and patients experiment with ivermectin during Covid, instead of waging war against it. By hammering ivermectin instead of permitting exploration, the FDA triggered the very outcome it claimed to be attempting to avoid: public distrust.

People noticed the double standard — “try an experimental vaccine, but don’t touch this Nobel-winning antiparasitic.” The FDA could have said: “We don’t yet have conclusive evidence. Physicians may prescribe it off-label, and we’ll monitor outcomes closely.”

That would have balanced caution with respect for medical freedom. Instead, the scorched-earth response turned ivermectin into a cultural symbol of medical freedom, minted a whole new, stubborn independent streak, and broke the CDC/FDA’s iron grip on American health.

Thanks, FDA!

The agency’s “horse paste crackdown” triggered a mass awakening. Instead of protecting their credibility, the agencies torched it. And in its place, they accidentally built a grassroots medical independence movement that won’t go back in the barn.