If the Solution You've Got is Not Solution Enough, You Add Another

   Perhaps we should try Hydroxychloroquine, after all.
  Look at the figures today: 1,462 new deaths -- more than we have had in any one day for a while. Perhaps the fact that many are not wearing masks and not social distancing is at fault. Or, perhaps face-masking and social distancing are not in themselves enough.
   This is like a basketball game. If things start going awry, you adapt quickly, or the game will be lost.
   Yes, there remains reason to believe face masking, social distancing and isolation do work. For one (speaking of basketball) the NBA, itself, so far is evidence for (group) isolation. They went into the Bubble July 7 and have experienced little COVID-19 so far. That's the better part of a month of heavy breathing on each other. The isolation has worked.
   That's a very good indicator.
   But, nationwide, we are experiencing increases in COVID-19 at a time we didn't expect that to happen. Would it be so bad to say, Let's try the combination of Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Zithromax?
   In India, reportedly, its working. They've used HCQ. In their crowded slums, where bodies are thrown together and lungs share the same air, its working.
]  Offer it to those who will have it, then. Warn them that some studies have shown it can cause heart rhythm, kidney and liver problems. Give them the choice. But, if they will have it, use it -- widely.
  Tell them not to throw away their masks, not to quit social distancing. Those things surely have great efficacy. After all, what if it turns out hydroxychloroquine does not work? Keep the face masks and distancing in case it doesn't.
  It is not that face-masking and such are not working. But, whether it is because many are not doing them, or whether we are just testing too many people and that pushes the numbers up, or whatever -- the numbers on infections and deaths are up. You spin and you turn when things go wrong. If the solution you've got is not solution enough, you add another.