There have been a ton of alternative treatments suggested and studied--some appear promising with real clinical trials (or at least hospital use in treatment)--and some that are obviously snake oil peddled by wackos. The ones that at least appear to have some quality scientific study are things you might have heard of: zinc + vitamin D, hydrochloroquine, ivermectin.
I make no claims as to if any of these work and really haven't looked extensively into them because the signal to noise ratio is still really low, and there isn't a positive return on investment for me even if I could get to the truth on that. For now, the best move for me is to just focus on a healthy lifestyle and immune system. That pays dividends in general and should have been strongly encouraged back from March 2020 through the rest of 2020 when the medical community had fuck all treatment anyway. Imagine what the world would look like if our leaders suggested we spend time outside exercising, cooking and eating healthy meals at home, and losing weight last year instead of fear mongering and harassing people in the park. I'm not naive enough to believe everybody would magically lose weight, but it's the kind of policy that has zero health downsides and only positive upsides. It's what real leadership looks like that could be trusted because it is so blindingly truthful and free of ulterior agenda. It would improve all of our chances against covid and give us much better lives in general. You don't have to be a hippie to see the value in this approach. It's scientifically valid and backed with centuries of data and evidence. Why they didn't do this we can only imagine, but it really doesn't matter because it shows their decision making just doesn't have the right world view and philosophy to address this problem.
I prescribe very little to their motives. I think it's a matter that they are out of touch with how other humans think and prone to tunnelvision in their domain of study, but there are many true conspiracy-zone explanations. And some that just halfway touch--like they're sold-out to pharma interests--where it is certainly true, just a matter of degree. Not many people take absurd ones seriously though. I'd guess 99% of the vaccine/Faucci/mask skeptics don't believe the 5G nonsense, but that is the strawman canard argument always paraded out in conversations to try to discredit skeptics.
Why is this always the stupid shit we hear about? Interestingly, if you read about the history of conspiracy theories you'll find that that is a tactic the CIA came up with to discredit its opponents; that is not a conspiracy theory. But like my central thesis here, abusing this trick for control is backfiring as it pisses off more perfectly reasonable people who see the obscenity of being labeled a bunch of kooks and see that institutions are morally bankrupt. It's breaking the social contract that we live in a just, democratic society where our institutions are responsible, honest, and accountable. This is the same phenomena that lead to Trump getting elected, internet echochambers, and radicalisation. We're seeing a massive failure of leadership, and we've seen a continual erosion of our institutions over the last few decades, so it is logical that they wouldn't be up to the task of a crisis like this. It's my opinion that the best way to counteract all this is for us to stop playing along compliantly and demand better rather than just shrug and say I guess these leaders are the best we got. Our resistance will preserve liberty and force better behavior and accountability.
This isn't about just a mask, or just a temporary closure of restaurants, or just a vaccine. These leaders are using a crisis for their own agendas and will never walk back their new powers. We saw this with 9/11 just 20 years ago. The Faustian bargain to submit to them in return for ending the pandemic is fundamentally flawed and wishful thinking that will be abused.
that is mighty dubious. see the earlier death rates this caused as they used outmoded treatments on patients. i'm not sure what treatments you suggest are safer and still effective. i have read a fair bit though by no means the totality of knowledge. if there are any, i'd really love to hear it because it would be news to me.
its not the pointing out these problems that makes you a conspiracy nut, its the degree you will go to convince yourself that this is an everybody else problem and not a you problem that makes you a conspiracy nut. you have - without evidence or reason (apart from your own/others' theories) - come up with your own narrative for who these people are, what their motives are and why they are evil. and you are calling others sociopaths.