As regards PAXLOVID, check out the attached link...btw, also from Yale Medicine...given its 89% efficacy, the drug is hardly deserving of your "disaster' claim.tig
Finally (i wish ;-))...masks are a 'mitigating factor in virus transmission...it isn't binary...i.e. zero or one...any degree of protection is helpful...some masks more so than others...also, when COVID was first found to be transmissible by aerosols, we didn't have enough PPE material...especially N95/KN95 masks...so, the CDC and Dr. Fauci promoted other types to ensure that the front line medical personnel would be assured of access until such time as sufficient quantities were available to the general public...didn't happen until late 2021...and in time for the even more transmissible Omicron variant (Nov. 2021).
Take a moment and reflect...HCQ is not being recommended/used ANYWHERE...Masks are being used EVERYWHERE....why are you consistently on the wrong side of such issues?
Link: https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/13-things-to-know-paxlovid-covid-19