I'd be more inclined to read the article and believe it if it didn't cast so much aspersion on the official consensus and so scathingly Monday morning quarterba

I'd be more inclined to read the article and believe it if it didn't cast so much aspersion on the official consensus and so scathingly Monday morning quarterback public health officials and scientists who may have made some errors at a confusing and uncertain juncture. Seems to me that all these anti-mainstream people and sources have a following that is more zealous in believing them than the general public is about believing, e.g., CNN, and simply follow this general religion of convention = bad, center-left = bad, etc.