I often tout the following: I'm under doctor's care for various chronic but so far not serious conditions (I'm aging, so the usual cholesterol, blood pressure issues, etc.) Without exception, ALL the medications I take are generics and were so prescribed. This has the obvious benefit of being relatively inexpensive. It has the less obvious benefit: a drug on generic means it's been off-patent for years, maybe decades. That also means it has a very long track record. Please spare any responses about the risks of drugs etc. I'm aware of those. The point I'm making here is that all my meds are well known as to their risks and benefits, something that is a big mystery without exception, for all the Covid-19 treatments, as well as any other drug that researchers pulled out of their ass and rammed through without any rigorous testing.

It would seem that excessive paperwork, testing and years and decades of data from the field, and might I add, not much incentive to spin that data one way or the other, since the drug is generic and the greed factor is greatly diminished, turn out to be rather desirable attributes!