Not just outside of COVID. There were a few very notable cases early in the pandemic where the messaging was completely mis-managed. What has spread to nearly

Not just outside of COVID. There were a few very notable cases early in the pandemic where the messaging was completely mis-managed. What has spread to nearly every corner of the debate around COVID is that since they clearly mis-managed a few things they must have mis-managed everything and the presence of a single biorxiv preprint which agrees with you means that the bulk of professional virologists and epidemiologists are all wrong.