Mate, with respect, I think this is where people are going wrong. They are directed to this ‘argument’.
It’s not always about people not agreeing with each other or being called wrong because they have a different opinion.
It’s nothing like that, as a lot of it is actually really clear cut and demonstrable by the real world evidence, datasets, research nd just simply the passage of time.
If scientist X makes a bold claim, such as the pandemic is over, or we have nearly reached herd immunity in April 2020, or there will be no second wave, and things actually don‘t play out like that, then there is your answer. It’s simply - it’s right or it’s wrong.
Of course some highly qualified scientists have different opinions. But ask yourself this, hand on heart, can you go back and look through the claims of the scientists I can guess that you are talking about, and list where they were provably wrong and then look at what they did about that. Did they discuss it, learn from it, tell you why they called it wrong and what they have done to better understand things? And what they now believe will happen? Or did they completely ignore their bold ‘no second wave, pandemic is over, it’s simply a load of false positives etc’ claims or worse still, delete their Twitter history where they made those claims, and replace them with more bold claims (that subsequently don’t play out, either). If you genuinely do that, you’ll start to see why so many of their peers ignore them now, and why so many people are angry at the deliberate spread of misinformation and the deliberate misrepresentation of data.
