Even Bill Maher admits that medical science has become too intertwined with political propaganda media narratives and he calls out the mainstream media's overblown lies and scaremongering of the virus. He cites a poll where Republicans and Democrats guess the hospitalization rate of covid and Dems incorrectly guess on 50% chance of hospitalization when it's actually 1 to 5%: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3gy_CLXho