Regarding the first half of your article, the physicians / medical personnel I know personally still believe everything they are hearing on the news. The younger ones have gotten their small children (toddlers) vaccinated against Covid, and the older ones have started getting serious health problems such as turbo cancers. Yet I don’t think any have the slightest skepticism toward the authorities in their career.

On the one hand that makes sense, how can you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and 20-40 years of your life in the field and then realize your mentors / schools have fed you some lies? But then, they all have much more evidence that things aren’t working than a layperson does.

Interesting times.