#2 is very real. I have friends who have been harassed in public because of their perceived race, which makes me very sick of the whole conversation. This idea

#2 is very real. I have friends who have been harassed in public because of their perceived race, which makes me very sick of the whole conversation. This idea got politically weaponized early in the pandemic, which also makes me suspicious of the benevolence of some of the people “just looking into it”. There’s also a #3, that is that I’m irritated that people are becoming experts on virology after reading a Wikipedia article (or worse) and deciding to “look into” this, then declaring things to be damning evidence based on an extremely limited understanding of the subject matter.