I think my two favourite COVID-related heuristics are:
a) Is that a flip-flop of government policy or simply responding to uncertainty?
And
b) Is that critical thinking or a conspiracy theory?
The lines for both are exceedingly thin.
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I would throw it in a group chat and have my friends hash it out (together with m). ;)
Distributed cognition is nearly always better for these kinds of things.