What’s ironic about your rant is that the expert epidemiologists and virologists haven’t known much about this, got it wrong initially, still don’t know a whole lot about it, are still disagreeing on things, and are constantly learning about this thing. All/most of their knowledge is being shared and is available publicly, and since news coverage and social media coverage is 99.69% about this, a lot of lay people have actually learned about it. Also, many of us have doctor friends who are intimately involved with treating covid patients and have some pretty good sources of info. To dismiss people having dialogue about the virus, and how we as a nation/world should proceed, etc., because we aren’t epidemiologists, is disingenuous and lacking in critical thinking, logic, and common sense. At the end of the day the president, governors, and business owners will take the advice and information from the “experts,” look at the latest data, and make a decision on how to proceed, and we can sit and throw spears as we see fit and continue to debate it. Meanwhile private companies will continue researching treatments and vaccines. And we can talk about that too. Even if we aren’t medical/drug research scientists. Shocking concept...I know.