1 – Politics can bend science.
2 – Politics can bend minds.
3 – Politics can cover up the truth.
4 – Mathematics and the truth are good friends.
5 – Mathematics cannot be bent by politics.
6 – The truth will always prevail, even if delayed by politics.
7 – Bent minds create bent statistics*, for the pleasure of bent politicians.
[*Statistics is the application of mathematics, not mathematics in itself.]
Apply (or not) the above, to COVID or a certain garden partay! But everybody is entitled to believe that it was work, cuz their leader says so. Tough.