The "growing distrust" is due to a concerted disinformation campaign which is independent of the facts.
There was indeed much negative information that the public was not aware of, and they should perhaps have held more skepticism than they did. But the gleeful acceptance of outright anti-science lies implies that they were never really in a position to make a sound judgment one way or the other.
In those circumstances I'll settle for people reaching the correct action: that practically all accepted medicine is correct and they should follow their doctor's advice. If they choose to over-inflate the importance of things that do indeed go wrong, then they are the ones failing to reach valid conclusions.
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I thought it was "contract and spread" you can't even get your own disinfo straight
Like I said: every word out of your mouth there is a lie. Yes, I know the links you're about to hand me, to right-wing disinformation sites and actual news articles that don't say what you're pretending they say.
These are straight out falsehoods, collected for you deliberately, which you are repeating because you didn't even pretend to examine them critically. There is no way to discuss the actual mistakes made during the pandemic when it takes me ten times as long to refute the lies you're spreading.
You're very quick to throw around unsubstantiated accusations of spreading misinformation while providing nothing of substance to back it up. Pounding on the keys forcefully doesn't carry an argument. Come back when your temper tantrum subsides.