With a press, media, and institutions of governments that have shed all credibility in the past 20 years, we all are best served with heaping amounts of doubt on everything we are told. That's the cost of being played for so long as fools. Covid was the last straw.
That was the plan all along. If we don’t believe anything they tell us, when they DO tell the truth, we will poo-poo them and we end up getting screwed again. Covid was the incubator to all this.