AND we still have a free press in this country.>>

There is no such thing as "free press" in nature, let alone in the age of mega-corporate capitalism. All "free press" of ANY significance is on the short leash of special power interests. Our hope is in the clash of these interests. BPharma is powerful but they are not gods, ditto the FDA and other state agencies. A much larger chunk of corporate power in this country has interests opposite to BP just as there are lot of political interests opposing those in the WH and its state agencies. The industrial, financial and service capital of this country has been bleeding white from Corona and they badly need something like leronlimab to stop it. They and their "free press" are our natural allies.