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[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Calm down kiddies.

Inhibiting protease is a normal effect that you look for in an anti-viral medication. HIV drugs do it. Hep C drugs do it. An antiviral being a protease inhibitor doesn't mean it's horse paste. And it doesn't mean that horse paste is effective against Covid-19.

[–]jamesK_3rd 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I don't think you understand what's going on here

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

What do you think it going on here, and how does it differ from what you think I understand?

[–]Questionable[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They are patenting a more expensive version of a treatment they denied people, while allowing them to die. That is what's going on here. And he does not believe you understand this.

Ĥ̅͛ǝ̮̺͕̲̰llo ʍoɹlp' I,m Qnǝsʇᴉouɐqlǝ.̬̘̟ͅ

[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Nope.

This is not a version of another treatment. And horse paste is not effective against COVID-19. Pfizer doesn't "allow people to die".That's not within their power. They manufacture pharmaceuticals. So do other companies.

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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, it was a great step forward in medicine by being effective against parasitic worms. Notably River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis.

What it doesn't do is be effective against COVID-19. This is not surprising because COVID-19 isn't a parasitic worm.