If there was ever a more antithetical statement, it was 'trust the science', because science is supposed to make sense from a seemingly chaotic world and the 'rules' it discovers should be reproducible. The trust should be verifiable.

Unfortunately, this is further complicated by the simple fact that not everyone can even begin to evaluate whether a given information is bs. That is a problem.

Covid would not have even been recorded if it happened 100 years ago. Start flashing on the screen the numbers of people killed by drunk drivers every week and let’s get something done about that instead of crashing trust in our national institutions —- with no survivors!