Of course schools everywhere closed in panic, but once they reopened they either had mask mandates or they didn't. So you choose to pretend the data from Georgia and South Carolina don't exist. The only doctor ability you have is a spin doctor.
The authors might have had at the time 95% confidence in their study which means at the time there was a 5% chance they were wrong, something you also ignore. And now, if Dr. Vinay Prassad, a real professor of epidemiology at a real medical school is correct, that 5% is now close to 100% as time went on.
Finally, you seen to be absolutely clueless as to the power of groupthink. The mainstream media are nothing but a bunch of sheep. Remember when the Democrats put out the talking point of George W. Bush lacking "gravitas," and the mainstream media ran with that word for a couple of weeks? Same thing with the origin of Covid. I've also repeatedly pointed out to you oftentimes "experts" really lack the logical abilities to know how to use their knowledge. I seriously doubt anyone still wondering about the origin of Covid has stopped to say, wait a minute, the odds of the virus originating naturally in the exact same city housing a lab studying the exact same coronavirus have to be astronomically impossible. Yes, that's how stupid egghead "experts" can be.