My paradigm shift that took place over the best few years is exemplified by the fact that people like “el gato malo” and “Eugyppius” make far more sense and are far more credible than the New York Times, the CDC, and even fucking Nature. It’s not a world I want to be living in. Being able to read NYT in the morning, take it at face value, and get on with my day, sharing a common set of facts with the people around me, would be a much easier world to live in. But it’s just become undeniable over the past few years that this is not the world we live in. And probably never was. In that respect, Covid was invaluable for revealing the man behind the curtain.