"If someone used the same argument *against* something I believe in would I accept it as valid?"
Imagine if I said "500 hundred years ago hospitals were filled with people who believed that evil spirits were the cause of their illness, therefore, evil spirits *must* have been the cause of their illness".
Everybody would recognize the stupidity of such an argument. And yet, use the exact same argument for the so-called Covid virus and some people are convinced that this is rock solid proof.
