The whole thing disgusts me to this day. They threw science out the window. They rushed these untested vaccines in an unscientific manner, while refusing to seriously investigate these known and safe protocols using IVM/HCQ and vitamins and an antibiotic. There was sound scientific basis for why those protocols would work especially shortly after infection. They were tested and indeed used in small independent clinical studies that showed good results and safety. That justified expanding the studies.
The establishment just flat refused to look into it, and actively tried to suppress it. Which is absurd on so many levels. We had I don’t know how many 100,000s of new infections each week? It would have been cheap and easy and fast to enroll double blind trials to test these protocols. Take 20,000 people give half the medications and half placebo and test for various markers - viral load in the blood, symptoms, temperature, recovery time, hospitalizations and death. They would have had answers in days and weeks.
What they did instead was absolutely not science and pretty close to the antithesis of science. They had no legitimate reason not to fund these trials. The medications are safe, old, and had been widely used for decades. The only explanations for this were power, money, politics.
I agree with power, money, politics, but don't forget stupidity.