Maybe it works sometimes, however, most reports about studies do not mention that it has side effects (like death) on people with G6PDH deficit.
This is many people stemming from Malaria Regions, like African Americans.
This "deficiency" is wide spread ( up to 30% in Africa, 10% of African Americans ).

Already the NHS (British health services) is calculating that Measures against Corona will cost *alot* more death than Corona. And this is britain. It will only be worse in 2nd and 3rd world countries where sanity does not prevail

Just as an addition: We track people dying who are infected by coronavirus and show the symptoms. Tracking the other ~100 Viruses that show the same symptoms is not done and only 2 of those are commonly known now i guess: Influenza and Corona. Tracking which virus killed you finally is hardly possible. The normal death rate from this group of diseases is estimated to be 0.1%. So far there's hardly evidence that corona is worse than that value, because healthy people are not tested.

why are you so confident that the US is "heading for a level of death" when it is not even clear how dangerouns (or harmless) this coronavirus is?

I think what parent really meant was % of budget, not % of gdp. Either way spending 4,7% of gdp is very very high up in the ranking. This is more than 50% of the budget by any way you want to put it huge, unless you want to only compare the USA with 3rd world countries in civil war and dictatorships.

No, we have "state run media", because the majority of voters think that its a good idea having public media that is paid by taxpayers rather than Companies, because that makes higher quality programming possible. Btw, it's not "state run media", its independent media financed by taxes. Yes, *we* do like having independent media.