Yep. Covid “Fact checkers” were just spindling the government’s truthspeak.

The actual truth was we didn’t know or have enough data at the time. And still don’t.

And if you looked at most media headlines today, almost all would fail sane fact checking - embellishing, biased, opinion as fact, over descriptive to stur contention, etc.

It’s a skill we need to teach and learn ourselves. A self bullshit instinct detector.