It's easy to get caught up in conspiratorial thinking but one has to keep some perspective on the broad strokes.

Dr. John Campbell has interviewed Pierre Kory and Tess Lawrie, agrees that something weird is going on, yet he still presents the official numbers and discusses information leaked by the CDC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsRdICFRHcc

He's very good to keep a good sense of where the pandemic is heading.

All that being said, the time has long passed when we can sit back and pretend the people in charge are competent/well intentioned.

We're going to have to take matters increasingly into our own hands and put systems in place that allow us to resist bad actors in politics, of which there are clearly a great deal.