Why trust scientists and doctors? They don't all agree, which ones do you believe and what makes you pick the ones you choose? Where do our opinions come from? What do we base our judgments on?
We are fortunate today that we can see original videos of speeches and events and documents that we can compare and contrast to the media reports. Then it becomes clear who is reporting honestly and who isn't.
I think a repressive society that denies what we recognize as basic human rights is fundamentally different and less trustworthy and that censorship and lying is different than putting a positive spin on accurate news.
Well Sir, you are free to believe who you wish and for whatever it does for you, blame who you wish.
To draw a parallel, albeit a microcosm of crisis by comparison to this disease, it was a team of scientists, physicists, and aerospace engineers that brought Jim Lovell and his crew home. What does it matter whether they all agreed? Ultimately they worked together to achieve a solution. My opinion or beliefs as to their debates during the process couldn't be more irrelevant.
As to a "positive spin on accurate news", that will only occur for me when the proven vaccine is announced by the medical community and that vaccine is in widespread distribution.
