That's worse than offering nothing, and far more dangerous. He has no business making that pronouncement, not only because he's not a doctor, but also because, as usual, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Malaria is caused by a parasite, a living cellular organism, and not by a virus, which isn't even an organism, really, but a genetic particle. That's why parasites and viruses do NOT respond to therapies the same way, or for the same reason. So applying an anti-parasite medication to a virus is an insanely stupid recommendation without a shit-ton of tests demonstrating efficacy.
Now imagine I'm a fucking moron who believes whatever this worthless prick says, and let's further imagine that I'm a rheumatoid arthritis patient who has some leftover Aralen (Choloroquine Phospate) that had been prescribed to me but I didn't use all of it. Uh oh. I think I have COVID-19. Now, because this idiot said that Chloroquine would "cure" me, I take that drug, rather than going to a doctor who knows what he's doing. And in the meantime, I'd be spreading the disease to everyone I might come into contact with while thinking I was healing and thus safe to be around others.
This is why it's stupid and dangerous to make these bullshit assertions for which there is ZERO evidence to back them up. People can die from this deluded bullshit.
And it's just as nonsensical to make up wild claims about the possibility that he'd decline to the med as a favor to "Big Pharma" for making big $$$$. You don't have to be a medical scientist to get enough information not to buy bogus crap like that. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand why the chances are quite high that a medication combatting PARASITES would be a shitty treatment for combating a VIRUS. It's the same reason why antibiotics don't work on viruses: Because they're two very different agents, and require two different methodologies to work. What's fatal to one often isn't fatal to the other. Sometimes, they could overlap, but it doesn't happen often.
And no, you don't loosen up your scientific standards for reasons of convenience or panic. You adhere to those standards, more than ever, because so much is riding on them. That reason you're so damned skeptical of Big Pharma? It's because in the past we've had medications get approved without thorough studies, and it got people maimed or killed. Remember AZT? Yeah, that was a drug trial that gone done in a panic, and look how that turned out:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-rise-and-fall-of-azt-it-was-the-drug-that-had-to-work-it-brought-hope-to-people-with-hiv-and-2320491.html
Do proper testing. The better and more thorough the tests are, the less likely that mistakes will happen. We don't want the "cure" to be as bad or worse than the disease. Or an expensive waste of time, when other, more fruitful research could have gotten the necessary resources.
Too much is at stake to fuck around that way.
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