It seems that basically across all aspects of Covid (masking, social distancing, biz closures, school closures, lockdowns, etc...) you got one answer if you listened to mainstream media and the govt but a completely different answer if you looked at the underlying evidence.
Probably my "favorite" (ie the one that drove me the most crazy) was the school closures. From the very start you could skim the daily case numbers and see that worldwide, kids made up a small percentage of those infected and an even smaller percentage of those that died. Nevertheless though you always got the same narrative from leaders about the dangers of Covid to kids.
Any pushback on the official narrative and the usual response was "well you're not a doctor so what do you know" which drove many people insane because for things like school closures, you didn't need anything above a basic understanding of statistics to see that the official narrative was complete BS.
I'm honestly really glad that moment in time is behind us.