People need adequate sunlight. Sometimes people can't make Vitamin-D from the sun, and need a Vitamin-D supplement instead. I think it's rather dishonest to treat those who are Vitamin-D deficient as if their Vitamin-D deficiency isn't actually a core aspect of their health problem.

> But governments have taken up other cheap, effective treatments like dexamethasone, once proven.

There seems to be a lack of interest in finding non-vaccine treatments by the medical Gatekeepers. The gist I get from many people is that 'none of the repurposed drugs that've been looked at actually help, vaccines are the only way out of this mess.'

But what if a "cheap, effective treatment" was out there, but was not widely deployed on account of good experiences with repurposed drugs/etc not receiving coverage from the medical hierarchy?

I've read that the core problem of finding a cheap, effective treatment for COVID-19 is that the emergency use authorization for the vaccines would have to be pulled:

During a public health emergency, the FDA
can use its Emergency Use Authorization
(EUA) authority to allow the use of unapproved
medical products, or unapproved uses of
approved medical products, to diagnose, treat,
or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases
when certain criteria are met, including that
there are no adequate, approved, and available
alternatives.

- https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019...

Remdesivir is also being used for COVID-19 on an EUA: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/nda/2020/EUA%... (Remdesivir is not an approved drug for any other condition, it's a failed ebola drug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remdesivir#Medical_uses )

Some doctors have found that the anti-serotonin drug Cyproheptadine (approved and in use everywhere as an antihistamine) is almost a magic bullet for severe cases of COVID-19. One of these is Farid Jalali, M.D., who makes the case that severe COVID-19 is a serotonin syndrome without the usual drug trigger. "An ideal scenario to prevent the hyperserotonergic multi-organ failure that is inherent to severe COVID19 would be a combination of reducing pool of bioavailable serotonin (early SSRI) combined with, if severe disease occurs, a direct serotonin antagonist (cyproheptadine)" [0] https://twitter.com/farid__jalali/status/1350149930954878976

"I can personally attest to the gatekeeping being fueled by greed (pharma) and arrogance (“thought leaders”). We barely squeezed heparin and steroids in there due to sheer brute force against above gatekeeping." [1] https://twitter.com/farid__jalali/status/1377669778794418176

"The more I see how things go, the more I feel like the whole "RCT-only-science" is a gatekeeping attempt, truly reflecting "we-are-the-only-ones-who-can-get-FDA/NHS/HealthCanada-to-let-us-run-the-RCT" The whole fucking game is rigged folks. That's why we are where we are." [2] https://twitter.com/farid__jalali/status/1379107965060276228

I don't think Dr. Jalali is doing anything especially revolutionary, he's just trying his best to practice good conventional medicine, and he's fed up with "gatekeeping" keeping effective and cheap treatments from being widely used to pull COVID-19 patients out of their death spirals.

I think the self-appointed gatekeepers to Science (TM) can't allow effective non-vaccine treatments to gain foothold, as that would cancel most people's motivation to get vaccinated. If the vaccines' EUA was pulled because acceptable treatments with drugs already approved for other uses became known, COVID-19 vaccines could only be re-deployed after full safety studies have been completed. This would be a disaster for the medical gatekeepers.

Maybe some of you don't believe there's any dishonesty in Humanity's COVID-19 experience. I'd appreciate a comment, rather than a downvote. Thanks.