Filtering the covid signals from the noise

What rules can you use to decide who to trust when there is so much conflicting information and opinion flying around?

Until the first few months of 2020 I was, like most people, blissfully ignorant about pandemics and epidemiology. Suddenly covid became a dominant feature in our lives and we were blasted with conflicting analysis and information. It became apparent fairly early on in the crisis that “following the science” was a meaningless notion, given scientists hab…