Quote Originally Posted by Johnson85 View Post
The fact that politicians are exploiting it is not incompatible with it being a real crisis. While there are certainly politicians and bureaucrats trying to do the best they can with the information they have, that is not what has dominated our policy decisions w/r/t covid.

And you can criticize people all you want, but we need credible institutions with credible leaders for instances like this. Not everybody is going to be able to do their own research. Unfortunately, we don't have either so we're going to end up muddling through this in a very suboptimal manner.
Medical journals, CDC, etc weren't that controversial before 2020. There's plenty of good info out there that medical professionals trust. Most people are just emotionally biased based on who they hear it from