While most ponies think that Taco Bell is where it’s at, Twilight is lured in by the false promise of Chipotle. As it happens, their fresh ingredients come with something extra . . . not salmonella this time, just good old-fashioned worms.
The good news is that modern human medicine has invented a better treatment than turpentine and linseed oil; the even better news is that anypony can buy it at Tractor Supply Company.
Or at least they could.
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Now with a reading by StraightToThePointStudio
Also with a reading by Pony&Wolf Productions
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Yessss! It was my pleasure to preread and to have inspired, however indirectly.
Remember: if you are not a horse with worms, don't take the horse dewormer!
Oh, Biscuit, never change <3
Moral of the story: Tractor Supply Company is the healthier option for visiting ponies, though they may need to provide their own hot sauce.
Also, love the callback to the Budweiser Clydesdales.
This also pleases, and now I'm thinking of farm supply stores as being pony Walgreens. :)
The things that we as a species will resort to, simply to avoid doing something else.
Oh boy, lets see how the comments roll in on this story
Breaking News: Humans are not always as clever as advertised.
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I'm sure they will be thoughtful and well-reasoned.
Until this inevitably hits the feature box, anyway.
I love it. Thank you.
Though I must say it takes real courage for Twilight Sparkle to go to Chipotle, considering her phobia of Quesadillas...
Oh you!
Cute! Hopefully Chipotle never gets wind of this story.
"Isn't there a cure using magic?"
"Well, yes. First you find a really good friend. Then you give them an axe and a bucket. Then you use a shrinking potion..."
Very few people actually ate Tide Pods, but then Ponies seem even more gullible than people.
I didn't even know people were doing this until I saw this story and another on the front page. smh at this point that this is a real thing.
... And then Twiggles overdosed 'cause she didn't listen what Redheart said
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I take it some severely dislikes Chipotle. I like it far better the Taco Bell.
Why are there two ivermectin stories in the featured box at the same time? Did something happen?
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Bandwagoning.
After the franchise wars of 2025 Taco Bell won henceforth all restaurants became Taco Bell...
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Ditto
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This was playing in my head too
Teleportation is not as handy as one might think. If you're not careful, you can wind up in a lot of trouble.
Also, do I want to know where this fresh madness came from?
What is an... "asiles"?
Oh no. Twi, I don't think you were supposed to eat that!
This was good.
I don't know why I enjoy stories about Twilight having mundane setbacks, but I do. I also find that I'm really enjoying these ponies on earth stories. They really point out a lot of ridiculous things we do. And not just this ivermectin stupidity.
Also...I completely forgot invoking the name of Faust as being a thing. God that brings back memories.
Can all the princesses issue proclamations with the same level of authority?
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An "aisles" is the row of shelves in the store that has all the items for sale.
They add an A to the front in order to distinguish it from "isle"
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People were taking that medicine to treat covid, mostly it was antivaxxers and people who don't think covid is real.
Why is it that people took ivermectin, an animal medicine, with a second thought but treated hydroxychloroquine, which has been used as human medicine for decades, like some kind of deadly poison?
Edit: This is not a question about the effectiveness of either. I'm asking about the different reactions.
Good read.
On another note;
Was that a crack aimed at, Spike. Because it feels like it was aimed at Spike.
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Yes, but look at the way it was spelled, lol
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Not all medications are equal. A dewormer, even one for horses, is at least limited in its effect. Hydroxychloroquine, though, is a complex drug that can have some slightly more... fatal side-effects. (iirc I believe one of them is an increased chance of heart-attacks, but don't quote me on that)
Neither of them are shown to have any affect against covid, btw.
But like anything in this matter, if you have question: Go to your trusted physician or family doctor. Don't take advice from some random idiot on the internet.
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Ho snaps. I didn't notice.
Since I gave the 88th like, does that entitle me to a free time machine?
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https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/sawbones-hydroxychloroquine/
You may enjoy that.
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The same people took both. And both were equally dumb
Delightful!
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Because "the man" told us to take the human medicine, so it's got to be part of their plan.
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HCQ has 70+ years of effective use with no ill effects. World wide Malaria treatment.
IVN is an effective anti viral / parasite cleanse. May also have anti cancer qualities .
Copper sulfate has uses too.
IVN has 99% effect on stopping the Coof as seen in India who are now suing CDC medical Doctors for false information leading to deaths.
Masks do not stop viruses -
The Mederna-Astea Zenica & J&J injections have caused 12,600+ deaths, 2.8 million injuries and 6,000 fetal deaths.
(Well beyond the more than 20 year history totals of all deaths caused by injections)
Look beyond the headlines
total deaths by all causes in US = 2.8 million for the last 9 years no change in numbers [NIH/CDC]
Just like SockPuppet's story with Ivermectin, yours is just as much of a treat to enjoy like theirs! Just in your own unique lil' way! In all regards, this certainly made things informative and enjoyable all at the same time! Hope ya didn't mind, but I simply had to make a reading of this fic of yours!
Audio Linky!: https://youtu.be/aqQwquL3_BE
(I don't mean to offend anyone with this comment in any way!)
All the weird drama aside in the comments and everything else, this was a funny story. I liked it
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Funny. I wonder why people are so dead-set on trying to use anti-parasitic drugs against a virus. Malaria is also a parasitic infection.
Also, medications can be used at various different doses. From what I read, the problem is that there's no dose of hydroxychloroquine low enough to lack ill effects, yet high enough to have beneficial effects against COVID.
Step 1 for convincing people you're worth taking seriously: Prove that you haven't just been taken in by nonsense sites by linking to the court filing on the official government site from whatever country the suit was filed in.
Masks catch droplets of saliva, containing viruses. Even a child can understand the interaction between droplets of fluid and cloth.
First, it's hard to take you seriously when you can't even hyphenate the names correctly, let alone spell them correctly. Second, please provide a citation that proves your sources are working from more than raw VAERS data.
(VAERS explicitly allows self-reporting and any person who knows how to use it properly will tell you that it's raw data... i.e. it has high numbers because it does nothing to filter out causally unconnected stuff like "Got vaccinated, then drove drunk again, their luck ran out, they died in a car crash, and their doctor decided to file a VAERS report" or "Was already fighting cancer and lost their battle with it shortly after getting vaccinated". You're perfectly capable of filing a VAERS report pretending to be the doctor of someone who died.)
Also, even if that were the case, which I don't believe (especially when the rich are applying every corrupt trick in the book to cut to the front of the line), COVID has caused 638,689 deaths in the U.S. alone (source: CDC) and has longer-term (possibly permanent) effects, including things like potential permanent lung damage. That's about five times as many deaths as you claim the vaccine has caused. (Even more if you're using global numbers rather than U.S.-only ones.)
Hell, here in Canada, where we've got a tenth of the U.S. population, we've still had 26,932 deaths from COVID (source: Health Canada) which is more than twice the mortality rate you claim for the vaccine... and our vaccine reluctance is significantly lower than in the U.S. where it's become a political issue.
(And, funny enough, with lower vaccine reluctance, we've had lower per-capita COVID deaths.)
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We got ourselves a live one, fellas
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Neither ivermectin nor hydroxychloroquine do anything for Covid-19.
Everything you say about the vaccines is wrong.
Stop spreading dangerous malinformation, and get vaccinated instead.
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She's not EATING it, you silly billy ..
You know, when I first heard people were eating horse paste to treat Covid, for a hot second i thought they were actually consuming pureed, liquified horse flesh.
Somehow the reality is actually even dumber than my wildest THC-fueled imaginings.
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Ooooh, lol. The way it was phrased made me think she was treating it like a salt lick.