I'm so proud to see your Jan 28 post. I never saw that until now. I was still in the "oh fuck, we're fucked" crowd until a couple weeks later when the Germany data started coming out and didn't corroborate the Italy data (official Italy death rate was like 30x worse than Germany). Then, when I learned that there was a large Chinese population in the Venice area I went through a short period of "maybe it really is killing mostly Asians because of the they have more ACE 2 receptors in their lungs thing", but by the end of February, I was firmly in the "this whole fucking thing is a fucking big bag of bullshit" camp.

One of the sources of information I was going off was MedCram. I've listened to a lot of their videos since those first weeks of "there's a novel coronavirus in China", and i've often wondered whether they were just analyzing the available data as an independent third-party or whether they were part of the scam; there are just so many disinformation agents in all walks of life to satisfy all niches of information consumers at various levels of education and intelligence.