It was noted over the weekend that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the widely respected White House coronavirus task force expert, had expressed some ambivalence about the pandemic in interviews earlier this year. Some coronavirus truthers tried to argue it was evidence that the ailment that put five times more people in the hospital in New York state than the worst-ever week of the flu is a hoax or a nothingburger.

More charitably, the commentariat noted that it proved that no one, not even one of the nation’s foremost disease experts, knew or even knows with any certainty the extent of the coronavirus or what effects it will have.