I think you're making the mistake of assuming that HN has a singular opinion. Of course in a thread about hydroxychloroquine, you'll find lots of people with a

I think you're making the mistake of assuming that HN has a singular opinion. Of course in a thread about hydroxychloroquine, you'll find lots of people with a strong (in this case, positive) opinion on hydroxychloroquine. That's not representative of the entire HN crowd at all. People who are like "meh, I don't know" won't engage with that thread as much.