Criminal.
That’s a good word for all of this.
There’s another angle that hasn’t been fully explored, and that’s the sudden, and unprecedented, and wide-ranging involvement of regulators, politicians, journalists, and epidemiologists in what had heretofore been purely private medical decisions between physicians and patients.
It was just over a year ago that some governors (eg Nevada’s) banned the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat covid. After a year of searching, there appears to be no precedent for this. It seemed purely political at the time “Trump proposed it, so we’re against it”, but is that all there was? People died because of that, so where’s the accountability?
And now, with the evidence piling up that a range of early treatments are available, the powers that be still say that the best move is for an infected person to stay home until they need hospitalization. I don’t buy conspiracy explanations because it’s just too much work for humans to maintain a true conspiracy (someone always talks), but there is a lot more to this story than we’ve been able to uncover so far.