As I stood outside in a socially distanced line, having to wear a mask to go into the grocery store ten at a time, looking at all the broken glass from looted stores around us because riots were somehow not super spreaders… I don’t know, made me a little dubious.
The collapse of trust in science is going to go down in history as one of the most sad, bizarre, and destructive social contagions of modern times.
We cured diseases, fed billions, and powered nations - and people ran toward conspiracies instead.