I think if the IVM proponents were operating in good faith, their message would have been something like "There's some evidence that IVM can mitigate severe COV

I think if the IVM proponents were operating in good faith, their message would have been something like "There's some evidence that IVM can mitigate severe COVID infections, but it's relatively weak so you shouldn't rely on it to the exclusion of other ways of protecting yourself." But that's not what happened. IVM (like HCQ before it) is a prop, a cudgel, a red herring in the ongoing and well-funded political project to undermine faith in government and polarize the electorate