They'd Rather Horse Around Than Get Vaccinated

You can lead a horse to water, but its medicine will be stolen by anti-vaxxers.

(Public domain photo via Wikimedia)

On this week’s episode of Not An Onion Article™, Trump-supporting vaccine doubters are opting to take Ivermectin, a horse de-wormer, over the medicine everyone else in the world is taking that was specifically created to combat COVID-19, to combat COVID-19.

On the one hand, we are in the middle of a worldwide health event and some Americans are opting to die eating apple-flavored horse medicine rather than trust science. And, despite the cost of life, they’re well within their legal rights to.  But on the other hoof…

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As this is a major crisis in health, our educational system, and American soft power abroad as we tell other nations how to treat their citizens, I will be in somber silence. Definitely not refreshing my Twitter feed to see the goofy liberty people getting dunked on. Or wondering if this is a crossover episode. Yup. Definitely not doing that.

Judge Orders Ohio Hospital To Treat COVID-19 Patient With Ivermectin, Despite CDC Warnings [10TV]


Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at cwilliams@abovethelaw.com.

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