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Had the public health authorities not burned through their credibility in the past, there wouldn't be a massive issue with non-authoritative views.

It didn't help that they changed stories multiple times for dubious reasons.

This is a mainstream view

Shouting fire in a theater is protected speech.

I agree, except the issue with banning speech is that there’s no fine line. When does “covid misinformation” go from conspiracy theories (5G microchips) to skepticism (“does [X measure] really slow the spread”) to hard truths (the vaccine does cause adverse side effects in a small subset of the population).

I have no problem censoring blatant misinformation, but i’d rather be more tolerant than censor something that might be true or modest.