good post, cleaning up long overdue sounds good.
I'd like Trump to do 420 on 4/20. General "Release The Cures" theme.
There's a long list of things that weed is said to cure.
Ideally, there's a destroy and replace of the FDA, especially the laws that make it impossible to advertise that something cures without multi million in tests. There needs to be a middle ground - we can clearly see the need right now - where things that are safe can be marketed as antiviral if they show a certain amount of success at antiviral. In other words, the bullshit that comes out of Faucis mouth will stop when the laws say "hey it's totally 100% fine for you to sell something that contains a certain tba amount of ingredients that have a certain tba amount of antiviral success." We need that category. People should be able to go to a store and buy a thing that has a good chance of knocking out the viruses we have right now.
We have tonic water w/ Quinine, and many have pointed out that Zinc works well with Quinine. But we also know that there are a lot of natural healthy things out there that might also help, and various people are taking those things. People who are drinking tonic water now would probably buy tonic water w/ Zinc included, with an explicit amount of Quinine, and recommendation about usage. if you throw garlic and ginger and turmeric and cinnamon and baking soda and MoM in there, and replace the HFCS with something like maple syrup or raw honey, or maple syrup mixed with baking soda, maybe even more people would buy it and more people would have covid prevented.
Maybe there are certain, fairly simple government regs that need to be followed. The government can pay for the tests if the government felt that was necessary. Maybe the manufacturer can pay for mouse tests, and maybe the government can say "mouse tests are good enough". Maybe the government will say "those mouse tests are good enough for us, the government, to pay for further studies"
Perhaps there could be different labels, perhaps one logo if the product went through the mouse tests with good results, perhaps a different logo if the product had good results on the government tests.