To be honest, I don’t think the numbers can be fully trusted anywhere. In some places, like China, they’re completely discarded. In others, like Spain, they are so varied and changeable that some see them as completely fabricated. Of course, I’m talking about the ‘official’ numbers. The excessive death numbers probably give us a much better idea as to what has really happened. Not so ironically, now that the massive loss of life narrative has been debunked by reality, the official narrative has begun to focus on the ‘lasting effects’ and, in some quarters, it looks like even coronary disease is going to be a by-product of COVID-19! Surely there is some truth to what the scaremongers have to say, but as you say, it’ll be years before scientific studies yield actionable conclusions on the subject. Nevertheless, and this the thesis of my post, in the meantime, those still unscientific conclusions are being spread as though they were scientific, and done so with the express aim of creating fear, in fact, in the face of an ever growing body of evidence, and scientists, that put the terror factory in question. THE TEST for who is objective and who is dogmatic is simple: look for who is insulting, belittling, signalling out and intimidating. It doesn’t matter what walk of life you’re dealing with, those who lower themselves to such behavior are usually those trying to impose their will without rational argument and in opposition to everyone’s general welfare (that is unless they have real power over you, in which case they snidely tell you what to do).