A few more years with these types of 'studies' will bring down trust in science - or at least The Science™ but many people will not make a distinction between s

A few more years with these types of 'studies' will bring down trust in science - or at least The Science™ but many people will not make a distinction between science and The Science™ - enough for it to become irrelevant in the eyes of 'the general public'. Also, what is it with the SARS2 scare mongering these last few months? I realise there is an election on the schedule in the USA and that some people there were quite satisfied with the leeway the pandemic gave them to bend and twist the rules of such events but do they really expect that strategy to work this time around? How is that going to work with the rest of the world having relegated SARS2 to the list of annoying seasonal infections which are just a part of life, no worse than most other forms of the common cold?