When Covid hit, competition among many prominent people who specialize in wellness and those they dismissed as specializing in sickness (i.e., doctors and scientists) reached new levels, and for a simple reason. … For months, conventional medicine had nothing for us. … This was the period when, if you thought you might have Covid, the reigning advice offered by doctors was far from reassuring: "Try not to give it to anyone else"; "Stay home unless you can barely breathe"; "If you can't breathe, call an ambulance and try your luck with the local hospital, from which there is a solid chance you will never reemerge."

XREF: Connects to broader critiques of mainstream medicine's rigidity and the credibility gap that alternative practitioners exploited during crises.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 603