re: If I’m supposed to trust the science, show me data on climate change and China virus

It's like trying to explain evolution to a young earth creationist or astronomy to a flat earther. It's just not possible to convince someone who is so deeply attached to their beliefs. Nobody's going to change anyone's opinions.

And unfortunately a lot of this stuff takes so much prerequisite knowledge to explain and discuss properly, but people without it will do "research" and think they don't need it, when that research is just YouTube channels and internet sites that agree with what they want to think.