"The authorities were lying to us" is not a very reassuring take but it's more reassuring than the truth, that in enormous part they're incompetent, actively da

"The authorities were lying to us" is not a very reassuring take but it's more reassuring than the truth, that in enormous part they're incompetent, actively dangerous morons. See how the FDA banned KN95s, how the CDC stopped the Seattle Flu Study from testing for COVID, the CDC's banning non-CDC laboratories from testing for COVID while itself screwing up tests, the endless delays with approving things like fractional dosing, boosters, neither using the AZ vaccines nor giving them away. At least they didn't get in the way of Operation Warp Speed too much.