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.

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 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.