Ok, thanks for explaining.
I will go back to my original question to
@josepdelafuente. How do they know for sure who will develop acute Covid symptoms? Do they have a crystal ball? It's my understanding from reading tweets from critical care nurses, emergency room doctors et that anyone can develop severe acute symptoms and they are advising people to stop assuming that having comorbidities is the only high risk group. They work in the hospitals and treat the actual patients.
You're right - obviously they can't predict the future and they can't "know", it seems the people making these systems haven't understood what you lay out above, and are coming at it from the angle of statistics / probability (mistakenly, by the sound of it).
I'm assuming they ask the screening questions (I've remembered a bit more of what they asked me since yesterday, luckily my symptoms have already improved quite a bit since yesterday), and if the answers sound like someone who is "less likely" to have severe acute covid then they don't get the drugs... And if they're wrong, they're wrong and that's obviously terrible for the person who goes on to develop the severe acute covid, but I'm assuming it just comes back to something to do with finances, and there not being the resources to just give the drugs to everyone who tests positive..
Some of the other questions I was asked by the 4 different NHS staff who I spoke to (two doctors, a "clinical lead" and a "medicine distribution centre assessor (I think!)", were:
"are you having trouble breathing?" (I wasn't),
"can you hold both arms above your head for some amount of time" (I can't remember how long, and I could),
"can you put your chin against your chest?" (I could),
"do you know who you are and where you are?" (yes),
"is there anyone else in the house" (yes, my housemate)
"do you have a high temperature?" (yes, I did)
oh... and the final doctor I spoke to said some things which were a bit confusing / contradictory... when I mentioned M.E and said that there's no treatment, they said "not yet, but there is research happening!", which took me by surprise a little (that they said that), but then they also recommended I should do some bits of exercise to prevent this covid infection being even worse (?!), and then immediately afterwards they said "but obviously limit the exercise to what is manageable with the M.E"....