Remember that epidemic that swept America in 2019? (and, no, I don't mean Covid-19)

It was called EVALI.

This brand new disease caused symptoms including fever, cough, diarrhea, and in severe cases, lung failure. The CDC pleaded with people to change their habits to prevent more people from dying of pneumonia on ventilators. The only thing that distinguished it from a nasty flu or other infection were negative test results. Do you remember that epidemic? Do you remember how the CDC was unable to say what caused the disease? Or how the disease peaked in September and literally disappeared by the time COVID lockdowns began in the USA? If you do remember, expect a visit from the MIB, because that story has been shoved down the memory hole, right next to the story about the lab leak at Fort Detrick.

The CDC blamed it on e-cigarettes while carefully disclaiming that they had no evidence it was caused by e-cigarettes. Liberal legislatures nearly put JUUL out of business based on the CDC's bashing of legal nicotine products over EVALI. But then a few weeks later, the CDC let nicotine vaporizers off the hook and switched to blaming black market THC vaporizers, again without even claiming to have any evidence to support their thesis. Conveniently, the black market vaporizers could not be held publicly accountable, and the disease just disappeared.

The A in EVALI stands for "Associated." That means there is no evidence of causation between vaporizers and the novel pneumonia epidemic. If the CDC is so completely clueless about what caused EVALI, why should we believe they are experts on COVID? Especially since these two diseases have identical clinical manifestations?