I had a conversation with my doctor about the pseudoscientific Covid NPIs

Me: Texas removed both restrictions and mask mandates in February, but kept dropping and didn’t surge until June. Why didn’t they surge if not seasonality?

Doctor: Well people were still able to follow them (this was also Fauci’s pseudoscientific excuse)

Me: Michigan and Pennsylvania had harsh restrictions all spring, yet they surged until April

Doctor: That is because people were vacationing from Florida and spreading it in their home states (this did happen Im at least one case, with Michigan’s Governor Whitmer being caught during an unannounced vacation to Florida). Also, just because there are mandates doesn’t mean people are following them.

Me: Couldn’t it just be seasonality, instead of all these restrictions and mandates that scientists prior to 2020 saw as both ineffective and morally wrong? How is it not seasonality and spread in indoor ventilation as 2019 science would you say?

Doctor: All the experts worldwide believe that masks work, you should trust the experts.

I got someone with a medical degree to give the exact same line an NPC would say when confronted with these questions I got from “thinking for myself” (NPCs and fake news say we do this phrase as if it is a bad thing!)