I agree with this...” I think the hyping of hydroxychloroquine is, at least in part, an attempt to console the public by giving them hope...”
I’m not sure what I think about that but it’s probably part of the calculus. A mood placebo for five billion people.
Just to clarify, I was referring to Brilicidin when saying it’s potential as a therapeutic was good.
A man asked a boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy said yes. But the traveller's horse sank in up to the girths. "I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom." "So it has," said the boy, "but you have not got half way to it yet."