"Remember, when you have a question about the pandemic, look for the people who are subject matter experts, not just whoever says what you want to believe."

- some chick at Lifehacker with a bachelors in biochemistry

The cargo cultishness of this thing is really starting to wear me down. My data is 10.2% more truthy than your data therefore you are an anti-science ignoramus and a danger to public health. Fact of the matter is, the epidemic was discovered in the United States when Fred Hutch analized FLU DATA against the direct orders of the CDC and DID DISCOVER that we'd had community transmission within Washington State for a month longer than the officially anointed experts had claimed.

You can't claim "don't believe that data because we have this data" and you can't claim "we don't have a lot of data on misdiagnosed cases" because nobody goes to the fucking doctor for the flu. I'm all for "we don't know what this looks like so don't presume you're immune" but all these hot takes from dipshits in the tech industry have got to fucking stop.