Yes, Veet, in the UK anyway, as far as reporting the basic facts about what has happened, people’s comments on events, and when the journalists go into further depth on a topic.

Whether one takes on board everything that key players/commenters say is up to us of course. But isn’t it also always worth checking inside to see where exactly we’re coming from with our responses, opinions, attitudes, possible biases, prejudices etc?

Frankly, you give the impression that you’d be disappointed if you could find nothing ‘out there’, particularly anything involving ‘authority’, to disbelieve and be disillusioned and angry about. But perhaps the Italian experience, economic chaos and corruption etc., has left indelible scars that have made you prone to such responses.

Or perhaps you haven’t much else to occupy your time?

My views on corona virus run along the following lines, which is not to say I do not obey the law of the land I happen to live in. Unlike yourself, I do not view corona virus as some kind of joke. Just read an article by an Italian nurse, describing the terrible stress she is currently working under to help those less fortunate than herself. Truly heroic, unlike smug people like you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_AyuhbnPOI&fbclid=IwAR3PnXIiLSh0qI62sTsOS49pznFB9G99qlH2z0e7ARD0F3ESWaE2BwsjGF4

Rather, you are the one who believes that things are exactly as the tv tells (well, but what do you know about what Italian TV says?), things like the role of synchronicity in melting steel from a distance: show me your tests, using the smart half of your head, making a video where you can melt a pot by throwing it from the window full of boiling gasoline.

I add only two things, confirming, on the basis of data from the same mainstream sources, that the draconian measures in place are exaggerated, for social, economic and political costs; therefore, either all of us (ordinary citizens) do not know something about the infection (inconsistency, technical side), or we do not know something about the aims of the emergency measures adopted (inconsistency, political side); this ignorance can be overcome with an act of faith or with a constructive critical attitude (scepticism must be referred, as a reaction, to the dogmatic, coordinated and widespread attitude in dealing with an emergency media case, where there is never room for voices outside from the choir and a media space of calm deepening).

The first thing is an invitation to reflect on how easy it is today to assemble a media case, regardless of whether it is real or not, and how it (media case) then has real consequences on our lives.

The second one is an invitation to reflect on how difficult it is to speak of “bread” if words like “flour”, “water”, “knead” are banned…

If I were successful in the plan to eliminate JFK there are some words that I would like to ban in describing the case by media, for example all those that fall within the “conspiracy theory” framework.

A link as an example of a voice outside the box, when applying a method honestly implies staying open to the hypotheses to which that method leads. English subtitles available (M. Biglino worked for the Vatican publishing company, then he noticed something big, which is better not to talk about in order not to be labeled “bizarre”):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASUVTY8na7A

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/12/17/how-britain-voted-2019-general-election

Shows that the Conservatives had a very small percentage of the vote share under 40.

In the U.S 2016, election, most of Trumps voters were also of the older herd: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/11/09/the-2016-elections-generation-gap-infographic

I repeat, you provide no credible evidence or motive to support your belief that the coronavirus was deliberately created and ‘planted’. And I ask again, what is it IN YOU that wants to believe such far-fetched pseudo-explanations?

Scepticism about the vested interests, the rich and powerful and large swathes of the media is necessary, even vital – but how about applying sceptical intelligence to one’s own tendency to at times overdo the doubt, to be over-sceptical, over-suspicious, too ‘knowing’, some might even say to be ‘too clever by half’?

Bird ‘flu, anyone?

Are you debunking or proposing such measures, Veet? If the former, you surely know that vaccines take a lot of time to develop, eg another 18 months to combat the current virus.