Dr. DeWormer

*This article is about the lesson. For the doctor, see Doctor DeWormer.*

"*Well, I still think ivermectin's bullshit. Therefore, I can post whatever the fuck I want.*"
―Erik
Dr. DeWormer is the 135th lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It was released on September 8, 2021.

## Summary

Anti-vaxxers have been taking ivermectin for horses to treat COVID-19 and poisoning themselves. Doctor DeWormer calls Erik to give a voice to the people taking ivermectin.

Dr. DeWormer sends Erik a video explaining that ivermectin actually can treat COVID-19, and the guy seems to know what he's talking about. Erik goes to leave a comment, but Dr. DeWormer asks if he can leave it, since Erik is just going to make fun of the anti-vaxxers. Dr. DeWormer types a comment, but someone else had already typed the exact same comment. Erik types his comment, but someone else had already written that comment as well. Dr. DeWormer explains that Erik is wrong anyway because Joe Rogan took ivermectin and then recovered from COVID-19. Erik virtue signals to his audience pretending he wishes Joe Rogan had saved more anti-vaxxers, and then he leaves a comment on Rogan's video.

Dr. DeWormer sees someone on the Commenticouch. Erik looks over and 2020 Erik talks to him about Liam Neeson. Then he introduces the ad segment for Raycon.

Dr. DeWormer sets up the Facebook page We're All Horses On the Inside to provide a voice for the people that have used ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Erik looks at some of the other ivermectin Facebook pages, but they're all full of students and other skeptics so Erik posts goatse on one of them. Dr. DeWormer asks Erik to retweet some stuff for him, so Erik retweets some videos of Dr. DeWormer for his students. The students immediately suspect that Dr. DeWormer is Todd Clorox, but Erik wasn't paying attention.

Erik goes to a subreddit for ivermectin that's been filled with spam and horse porn. Erik adds a video that teaches how to extract semen from a horse. Then he finds a video from Dr. DeWormer on the subreddit suggesting that in addition to taking ivermectin, people should also drink bleach. Erik starts to get suspicious, so Dr. DeWormer hangs up. Erik finds another Dr. DeWormer video on Twitter. He accidentally blows his cover and admits that he really is Todd Clorox.

Erik decides that he doesn't care whether ivermectin can cure COVID-19 or not, but he points out that even the manufacturer of ivermectin has asked people not to buy it to treat COVID-19. Then he sees that the same company has also been working on a COVID-19 treatment, which gets the conspiracy theorists excited again. Erik leaves one final comment for them, but Todd Clorox takes over at the end and asks if they'd be willing to drink bleach.

## Comments

*Oh boy I'd sure hate to be a worm right now! You guys are gonna make parasitic worms go extinct with all this horse paste you're eating. I'll bet your painful side effect seizure shits and heart attack turds dropping out your pant legs are rolling into the sewers and changing the entire wastewater ecosystem into a place where no worm will ever thrive again. Anyway I won't offend you by telling you what to do because I'm assuming we're all adults here, so if you want to act like you know what you're doing that's totally cool with me. Especially if it kills you in minecraft.*
- Erik

*Most people have worms and don't know it. I took it and got rid of the parasites. I feel much better, but die off symptoms are interesting. Very cool vision anomalies and strange dreams, and loose bowels! Got them all out! I'm so happy I'm rid of those vermin!!*
- Dr. DeWormer and Arizona Sky

*SARS-CoV-2 does not conform to the central dogma of molecular biology. The virus presents to the cytoplasm as a positive-sense single-stranded RNA ((+)ssRNA), where it is translated by ribosomes into two polypeptides, pp1a & pp1ab, followed by a second translation into spike, envelope, membrane, & nucleocapsid proteins, which merge into the endoplasmic reticulum & the golgi apparatus - thereby forming a copy of itself. Ivermectin acts on the nucleus. However, the entire replication of SARS-CoV-2 circumvents entry into the nucleus, as it comes prepackaged as a (+)ssRNA. Ivermectin would therefore be completely ineffective in the inhibition of SARS-CoV-2*
- Erik and Shaun Zia

*I dunno why everyone hates this guy so much. He's a meathead who does DMT and has enough money to say whatever he wants. We've probably all agreed with Joe Rogan about something at some point, which is to say everyone is a complete idiot in their own special way. In this case, some of those people just have less worms than others. Tell you what though, elk meat has a LOT of worms so it's probably good that Joe was able to shit them all out into his pants while having a seizure.*
- Erik

*Hey everyone just to be completely clear, I understand this medicine is also meant for humans and that it has been shown to impede viral infection in cells. That said, fuck you all, here's a goatse.*
- Betsy Redilious

*How do we keep people safe from themselves? Surely the greater health of the world relies on helping those who would be stupid enough to injure themselves with the horse version of a medicine the internet told them to take. Because they're out there. Those poor stupid pieces of shit are out there right now thinking "this apple flavored paste is my only chance, if I do this I'll be one of the select few who make it out of this okay," and then they go blind while shitting themselves to death only for their corpse to get made fun of, once again by the internet.**I don't like the way all this stuff's been censored online any more than you, mostly because of all the confirmation bias it provides, but if you want to stop being treated like fucking children then please stop allowing the internet to imprint itself onto your brains as if you have no critical reasoning skills whatsoever. You're ruining the internet for the rest of us by running around like it's some kind of suicide club for baby boomers. I would love to be able to make fun of your stupidity and not get a strike on my youtube channel because this platform is too fucking stupid to know the difference between advice and parody.**Tell you what, if you care so much about your own health, I think the healthiest thing would be if you just go live off the grid. Go find a cabin in the woods, and maybe when you die you can let the forest consume you into its ecosystem. Let's see how many trees that kills with all the experimental treatments you've jammed in your body over however many years without question or proper research. Because at the end of the day, if you're willing to gamble with unproven medicine -- if you're desperate enough to purchase something meant for a thousand pound animal and guess at the human dosage, how close are you to drinking bleach?*
- Erik

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