For me the covid showed that all plans to censor misinformation are very dangerous. If not for Chinese censorship, maybe we would be given more time to stop th

For me the covid showed that all plans to censor misinformation are very dangerous. If not for Chinese censorship, maybe we would be given more time to stop the pandemic from spreading from China and they would have more time in Wuhan. If we had censorship in the West, the anticonsensus (at the time) view that masks work might have never grew. Similarly with lab leak hypothesis. We dont know the truth here yet, but would you hear about that? I understand it in principle but the reality of that just doesnt work. It has been also debated for literally centuries by philosophers, but who reads philosophers?