How to select multiple anchor points that have a lot of things in between

I would like to select multiple anchor points but there are a lot of other anchor points between them. This mean that I can't just draw a selection rectangle cause I would select a lot of unwanted anchor points. One way I found to do it is to use lasso tool then press A but this is extremly unconvenient...

It's a scandal that you can't just press A and add anchor to your selection using the ctrl key, is there another way to select multiple anchor points than the lasso tool ?