Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   "horse medicine" get FDA approval Date:   9/27/2021 11:12:20 AM

I think the point is that a lot of medicines are effective for one thing and get appoved for a different use.  My dogs end up on medicines sometimes that I get from the "human" pharmacy.  Case in point, my dog has been prescribed Trazadone to keep him calm after his leg surgery, and I have taken it for years for sleep and it was actually first developed for depression.  

But the other point is that it isn't wise to just decide that some medicine prescribed for horses or in other human uses - like parasites, is going to work for something else, because someone on the internet or google says it does.  

To some extent, I agree with MM about the money trail, because big pharma is going to make sure they recoup their money to develop the vaccine and they are beholden to their stock holders.  But I don't think you can be stubborn about some medicine that has not been proven to work for a specific illness, just because certain people "wish it were so".  No doubt, given a lot of time, they could probably identify several medicines that are already out there that might prove valuable against COVID, but we were facing a pandemic and they needed find something that would work for the majority of people.  

Since it is not mandatory, then fine, don't take the vaccine if you have reservations or concerns about it, but don't push horse medicine which has not shown to be effective by the scientific community.  I don't have much faith in the Director of the CDC, who appears to be playing politics, but I do have faith in the Drs and scientists who toil nameless and faceless to the general public.  Not everyone is cynical and money driven, despite what you may think.