But that going off the rails didn't just happen during our pandemic. It's been going on for decades.
And it's not limited to rigidly clung to, fiercely defended wrong beliefs about the range of dispersal of exhaled infectious agents.
My on-ramp to the pandemic – the point at which that which was going on in Wuhan came to my attention – was a point in January 2020, where all of a sudden people were talking about social distancing in terms of *the flu*.
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