I've been reading all I can about Covid for over a year and I don't know what the fuck is going on or who or what to believe. And I'm fairly savvy. There is simply too much conflicting information and too many lies and too much manipulation. I know only two things: a) my own government has lied to me and the fact that Slate Magazine refers to them as "noble lies" doesn't make them noble; b) I don't want my government, which spreads it's own disinformation (as Slate recently reported), teaming up with big tech to decided what constitutes mis- and disinformation and then censoring it.