I think if the pandemic has taught us anything it's that we need to be flexible in our opinions and approach as new information comes to light. Anyone who hasn't had to change their opinion on a whole bunch of issues to do with the virus over the last year and a half is either an unfeasibly lucky guesser or is doing something wrong.

Also, we've got to stop assuming a conspiracy and bad intent all the time. Whenever underlying information changes, and the experts must therefore change their guidance, people come out of the woodwork to declare "See! Mr. Expert changed his mind! He was obviously lying before. Is he lying now? What can we believe with all these liars lying?"

more like journalists are good at writing misleading headlines from studies, and chasing random quote bites to print out of context.

if your decision making is fueled primarily by click bait bylines, youre going to have a bad time. if you read through to the nuance of each story, the narrative doesnt flip flop quite as much as it first appears.

quite honestly, the details havent changed that much since the beginning. primarily effects the elderly, travels by spit through the air but not as airborn as measles, on a spectrum more load is worse, if infected seek monoclonal antibodies and quarantine yourself, vaccines prevent hospitalization, occasional boosters will be likely until entire population develops built in immunity. delta has brought the age bracket down (or is that because the first round of most likely to be infected are already gone) a bit and increased the transmission rate.