[WildHighlander57]

First it says Merck wants to market a combination of zinc and Ivermectin, and then it goes on to talk about molnupiravir.

I don’t get it; maybe they were making a pun?

[COUNTrecount]

The Merck drug is called molnupiravir, it is a red pill.

From article."First Pfizer announced that it wants to market a combination of ivermectin and zinc (which we predicted it would do months ago, dubbing it “Pfizermectin”)"

red pill noun [ C or S ] us/ˌred ˈpɪl/ uk /ˌred ˈpɪl/

beliefs, choices, or information that allow you to see the world as it really is, even though you would feel safer or happier if you did not. This refers to a scene in the movie "The Matrix" where a character is offered a choice between a red pill, which reveals the true world, and a blue pill, which keeps it hidden:

[Bigg Red]

Mark