Did you ever consider that the CDC guidelines for masks were intended to prevent hoarding so that those treating patients on the front lines could access them?
The lack of a control group is frustrating, but the comparison to outcomes in untreated groups documented in China still makes me feel this treatment holds promise:
"For all other patients in this cohort of 80 people, the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin resulted in a clinical improvement that appeared significant when compared to the natural evolution in patients with a definite outcome, as described in the literature. In a cohort of 191 Chinese inpatients, of whom 95% received antibiotics and 21% received an association of lopinavir and ritonavir, the median duration of fever was 12 days and that of cough 19 days in survivors, with a 28% case-fatality rate (18). The favourable evolution of our patients under hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin was associated with a relatively rapid decrease in viral RNA load as assessed by PCR, which was even more rapid when assessed by culture."
The Communist Party enjoys the luxury of dissent being a punishable offense. The media, the citizenry, the private sector are all held hostage by the absolute authority of the Party.
I'm not sure why, but the media seems so eager to accept the official CCP narrative and take the lack of clear dissent from within China to mean China should be held up as a model Nation worthy of praise while simultaneously ignoring all the restrictions and brutality that force silent those who otherwise might have much to complain about.
Deference to China by naive journalists and other useful idiots must be checked.
Not just that, but both Democrats and Republicans are complicit in the abuse of the working class through massive - both expanded legal and willfully ignored illegal - immigration.
The vast majority of new immigrants are low skill low wage workers and these workers drive down working class wages.
Now immigrants are on the whole very hard working and persistent people. They are a self selected population of such people.
That said, the economic reality is clear: for every small business owning immigrant, there are many more competing with existing citizens for low wage jobs and absorbing government benefits.
Both the Democrats (ideological and political interests) and the Republicans (business interests) have ignored this and opened the floodgates of immigration precisely at the same time that the lower and middle classes are deteriorating.
We are all human beings, but the leaders of a nation must prioritize the needs of the citizens of that nation above others, regardless of grand humanitarian interests or self serving business interests.