Indeed. It honestly frustrates me that these science worshippers have a worse grasp of its fundamentals than creationists have.

Listen, Science isn't a method of figuring out the truth; on the contrary, its a method of gradually and slowly eliminating untruths until only a limited, often untestable set of possibilities remain (Despite a scientific requirement being that a hypothesis has to be falsifiable, most scientific conclusion actually rest upon presently unfalsifiable conclusions that we simply lack the tools or resources to refine further. End of the day most things end up at a "just because" conclusion. Why does mass create gravity? Just because. Seems to be an innate function of mass and thats an assumption we must roll with because we don't know any means of testing this in a meaningful way). You take a set of things propositions that aren't self-evidently false and eliminate them until you reach one that seems self-evidently true based on the limited set of evidence you have.

Most things in science we know as "scientific fact" are things that we spent decades upon decades iterating upon to the point that we've literally reached the point where testing the propositions further require circumstances beyond our ability to replicate.

Early on however, science gets shit wrong. A lot. Its not a bug, its a feature. Pretty much any given phenomena can't have any real "scientific conclusions" behind it until about 6 months in. Depending on the complexity, ethics and logistics of testing it, this may be far longer than that.

And yes, until AT LEAST April or so, everything we knew of covid were essentially educated guesses at best and irresponsible conjecture at worst. You think the "Face masks don't work" and "No human-to-human transition is possible" were lies? Nope, that may have actually just been irresponsible idiots proposing conclusions based on incomplete early datasets.