But the Biden admin WAS creating policy informed by data and science, it's just that this handful of critics had wildly different ideas on what policy to draw from them. Ideas many would say were fundamentally out of step not only with the political realities, but the very data itself.

Balancing out the COVID denialists, in intensity, if not in harm, emerged a group of, I don't know, COVID continuists? People vocally and vehemently determined that 2022, then 2023, and now 2024 are still the darkest days of spring 2020. They've dwindled as normalcy persists, but aren't yet gone.