What I learned from the pandemic is people are much dumber and far less capable of handling complex information than I thought. And I didn’t have a high opinion in that regard before!

Was reading some terrible paper earlier where it was clear the person understood nothing at all about how aerosolization works, how fabric works, why masks are worn, how viruses are (generally) transmitted, nor the studies they were citing and their limitations. It was a total shitshow of the worst kind.

But it seems plausible. Kind of. If you don’t read any of the source studies, don’t understand the science, and have no idea how anything works. Which, I’ve discovered, is most people.