https://www.juliusruechel.com/2022/01/who-do-you-trust-if-you-cant-trust.html
Ordinary claims require ordinary evidence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
— adapted from Carl Sagan
"How do we know that the flu hasn't just been rebranded as Covid?"
Quite a few people have suggested this controversial explanation for the pandemic, highlighting that the flu disappeared just as Covid arrived. They also pointed to massive problems with PCR tests and raised concerns about the trustworthiness of the SARS-CoV-2 gene sequence. Since our health officials have been playing fast and loose with the truth on just about everything else, and with so many other conspiracy theories turning out to be partially or even entirely true (remember when vaccine passports were called a conspiracy theory?), why not that too?