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'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't really know yet. There are some promising signs and some unpromising signs. It's just a factual question!

Same on the question of asymptomatic transmission and what the actual IFR is. Let's hope it's low! Let's hope there's been lots of asymptomatic transmission and we're closer to herd immunity than we thought! But, again, we just don't actually know and those are factual questions.