The best data wasn't provided by "strangers". The best data was:
The lack of data
Censorship
State violence and coercion
Any one of these should have tipped you off. None of these points requires you to trust anyone. Just basic principles you probably learned in primary school you dumb, clotted up, troglodyte.
I would say there was a lot of data, generally obfuscated and deliberately of poor quality, but the correct interpretation was still clear. And of course the best data was kept carefully hidden.
Another tell was "scientists" making obviously false claims like masking being effective.
The best data wasn't provided by "strangers". The best data was:
Any one of these should have tipped you off. None of these points requires you to trust anyone. Just basic principles you probably learned in primary school you dumb, clotted up, troglodyte.
I would say there was a lot of data, generally obfuscated and deliberately of poor quality, but the correct interpretation was still clear. And of course the best data was kept carefully hidden.
Another tell was "scientists" making obviously false claims like masking being effective.