but it's not tho

it's not any worse than a cold because it is a cold. Coronavirus is one of the genera that causes the common cold. This particular one also causes pneumonia in your lungs, but that's pretty much the only difference, just like SARS and MERS. They aren't stupidly contagious, they're just more harmful to vulnerable people. This one is no more contagious than any other coronavirus.

Besides which, that's not even the silliness of the argument. The flu and the shanghai shivers are the same size and spread the same way. It's literally impossible for one to be stopped by masks and the other not to be.

Ask yourself why the case counts started plummeting 3 weeks ago after rising dramatically. Do you think people suddenly started wearing masks more? Or distancing even more?

Or could it maybe be that the test they use has an adjustable sensitivity that they can use to generate whatever percentage of positive results they choose and they decided to lower the sensitivity after the inauguration?

Oh, sorry, I guess that sounds like a conspiracy. Wait a second, I'm being handed a note here. Turns out that's exactly what both the CDC and WHO did.

Now what if you also discovered that they had decided to tell healthcare providers not to report flu cases as the flu unless there was also a negative covid test?

Hang on, I'm being handed another note