And also those that called it early should be seen as more credible. Chris Martenson was putting out youtube videos in January warning about the coming pandemic

And also those that called it early should be seen as more credible. Chris Martenson was putting out youtube videos in January warning about the coming pandemic. He has been continually calling for masks as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRgTUN1zz_oeQpnJxpeaEkFimDeepqyWf https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRgTUN1zz_oeQpnJxpeaE... People don't have the time to deeply engage in subjects themselves to understand what is true. So we take a shortcut of uncritically adopting ideas from elsewhere. I see this usually play out as the most repeated ideas coming from any direction are the ones taken as correct. There is some amount of ranking of sources: the New York Times or in some cases a professional network is given a higher ranking. But normally none of the sources are experts.