But if you remember and think back to January-ish of 2020...This thread was dropping bombs with videos out of China. In those videos, people were dropping dead. they were also bleeding out of their mouths and nose. Now, we all agree we can't just run to trust and believe any or all the videos coming out of China, but at that time, we hadn't seen anything like that.
If we're going to believe the lockdown videos coming out of Shanghai right now, then those videos we saw in January of 2020 are also more believable.
To be clear, I don't know what to believe. I have days where I think we're gaining ground and I have days where I feel like we're dying a death of 1000 cuts. However, at this point, I cannot dismiss anything we're breaking down here as 'comical'.