I agree. There are some vaccines that have worked well but we can't be blinded by the industry into believing that new techologies like mRNA are good without going through years of testing. I'm also thinking this Covid crisis should usher in a set of policies regarding Emergency Use Authorization as well. That could only be used if no therapeutics were available. HCQ and Ivermectin were effective and used by may doctors in permitted off-label use to diminish the severity of C19.

Big pharma, Gates and others couldn't get their EUA with them in place so a campaign of demonization of the drugs and the doctors who prescribed them started. That included the big medical journals, JAMA, NEJM and Lancet. The latter was caught publishing a totally fake test against the use of HCQ. That luckily was retracted. The ones that appeared in JAMA and NEJM were in stark contradiction to what practicing physicians knew to be true. That HCQ and Ivermectin when given early, reduced the severity and need for hospitalization of C19 patients. Basically they eliminated the need for ventilators, ICU beds, packed Emergency Rooms. Most of the tests that were published used patients in the latter stages of the disease when the therapeutics were not as effective.

This is now an area that needs investigated. If the EUA is there for true emergencies, it was worked around through massive collusion between big pharma and tests designed to show the ineffectiveness of HCQ and Ivermectin. If it could happen once it could happen again. Stronger locks need placed on EUA and there needs to be more effort put on new uses for legacy drugs. Big Pharma won't like it but they can no longer be running the show as they have been.