And it's really tough for me, because, well, I teach data science. The things I've seen of COVID are identical to what I've had to deal with professionally.
People doubting the data all of the time. People doubting the metrics. People disagreeing what to do with the metrics. People thinking there's not a problem at all.
I have to point out the problems, but as faculty, I'm not allowed to tell them specifically how I view the problem, because it gets political.