Bizarre but not surprising to watch genuinely unknown empirical questions (is chloroquine a safe and effective treatment for Covid19?) get turned into these zero sum culture war battles.

There& #39;s a whole super weird cargo cult developing over on Trump TV over this drug. I mean: Good God I hope it works! We just don& #39;t really know yet. There are some promising signs and some unpromising signs. It& #39;s just a factual question!

Same on the question of asymptomatic transmission and what the actual IFR is. Let& #39;s hope it& #39;s low! Let& #39;s hope there& #39;s been lots of asymptomatic transmission and we& #39;re closer to herd immunity than we thought! But, again, we just don& #39;t actually know and those are factual questions.