re: The way the Government has hushed the use of HCQ makes me think we have a cure for cancer

You are a jackass

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I say anecdotal evidence is worth very very little in medicine.

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There is more evidence that HCQ works agains C19 than masks do but here we are.

Robitussin, chicken soup, and Sprite perhaps?

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Yet every treatment or possible cure is outright attacked by the media and leftists. Why do you think that is?

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Not sure I've ever seen anything like it before. I'm not saying that shite works, but a drug that's been FDA approved for well over 50 years shouldn't be forcibly withheld from the doctor patient relationship just because the gov't says so. It's disturbing to me.

Mechanical engineering students at LSU literally build combustible engines that can get around 100 MPG almost every year and yet most cars are lucky to get 30 mpg?

Of course big corp prevents innovation for their own profit

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A cure for cancer would mean that 10s of millions of people who die each year from cancer.

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Cancer still remains a catch-all category with many subsets, many of which are curable.
The cures available range from quite profitable to not particularly profitable.
A "cure for cancer" is sort of like saying, "I need a tool that fixes cars." What are you fixing? Reupholstering the interior, changing the oil, or replacing the radiator? They're all different, and thus many tools exist to fix it.
There are cures for many cancers.
There are many conspiracies out there as well, typically spread by people with a very poor understanding of human physiology and pathology.

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The other cure proposed has a big pharma price tag and comes from the good epidemiologist.

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HCQ has cured it?

I like options! It’s no one’s business what my doctor prescribes me.

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ARe you under the impression that Trump is touting HCQ as the only treatment for the virus? Why are you so single minded?

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Not at all. A medical populist response doesn't have to discount all treatments endorsed by medical authorities, but it uses the same logic as other populist discourse - but there's not much political "juice" in things like "follow approved medical treatments" like Remdesivir or corticosteroids or prevention tactics like masking because you then get evaluated by the public on the basis of the performance of that system and in the case of Trump, admit you were wrong. But it's not in his character to do that, nor is it in the Trump base to approve of his doing that, so at this point, he'd rather run against the medical systems in the states that are actually making real-world decisions to manage the disease.

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But Big Pharma would lose trillions of dollars, so there is no way they would ever release it.

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I don't understand this. If their was a cure it would be worth more than all treatments we have now combined.