I remember all of that! I also had friends messaging me at the start of the pandemic claiming that masks don’t work who later became extremely, ardently pro-masking. And you know what, it’s ok to change your mind given new evidence or in this case re-evaluation of the existing data.

What I object to is when someone treats me like the bad guy for being able to recall quite recent history, even if it paints people in a negative light. That I strongly refuse to play along with.

I won’t call them out by name, but I also had a friend (who is still a friend) insist that no one had ever said “hug a Chinese person” and that it did not happen that for two months the liberals claimed that believing Covid was a threat was racist. But all that stuff occurred. I remember; I was there. A lot of it is now “conspiracy-theorized” and memory-holed and more will be in the future as the truth is sanded down to what feels good.