“Misinformation” has become a code word/phrase, like “our democracy”.
When you hear it, it tells you a lot about the person(s) using it.
I am (if I do say so myself) a COVID expert. I deal with COVID every day. The percentage of known/unknown ESSENTIAL FACTS to make good COVID decisions or policy is no greater than 50/50.
“Misinformation” is a word crafted to impugn the informer.
Information is right, or it is wrong, or it’s someone’s opinion.. A lot of OPINIONS are either “proven”, “suspected”, “speculation”, “guesses”, “mistakes”, or “lies”.
“Misinformation”, as applied to COVID, simply means “deviation from current official accounts”.
And since current official accounts about COVID can and do change, sometimes with astonishing speed, most “misinformation” describes things that need more investigation.
the ‘misinformation’ angle aside,
If people are price gouging, either on product or ‘consult fees’ just because of a pandemic, people who were gouged are entitled to a refund of the overcharge. Take pandemic telemedicine - isn’t there a $50/call billable limit during the pandemic? I’m sure I read something about a cap somewhere. Did the telemed co. charge more than that? How much more? Did they violate any laws by disallowing insurance billing and accepting only cash? If someone jacked up the price of what was ordered or took money and never sent product, then there should be a penalty for that too.
I dunno how well a lawsuit for someone who died waiting for a promise would go in a courtroom, since the survivors would have to prove it was lack of that item that specifically caused death. But I doubt a jury, or judge, would be very sympathetic to a vendor if there are complaints that people got sicker waiting on the mailman, and received assurances the product was in the mail when it never was. Same as people are trying right now to sue hospitals for not giving unapproved items. Items that should have been experimented with, if they were going to be, well before ICU stage, when it’s obvious massive damage has already been done and the virus is already burning out inside the body, to below contageous levels by 20 or so days ontheaverage.