Watching the news is a painful experience. I refer here not so much to the events that flash before us on the screens of our televisions or smart phones, but to the deliberately misleading explanations of those events that are fed to the public by the mainstream legacy media.
John Robbins has noted that events do not explain themselves but must themselves be explained. This may seem strange a first. It’s tempting for us to say that such and such is just self-evident. But is it? If events are self-evident, that is to say, if events explain themselves, why is it that two people can observe the same event and come to very different conclusions?
For example, some people praise Dr. Anthony Fauci’s social distancing, lockdown and mask recommendations. Others see the response by him and other public officials as, at best, unnecessary meddling. Some may even see the calls for masks – and now the calls for face shields! – as an example of tyranny. How is it that people, even intelligent well-informed people, can interpret the Covid regulations that have been imposed on America and other nations so differently? It all starts with one’s worldview, one’s philosophy.
Lux Lucet 
Excellent use of empirical evidence. Truth will emerge, but that doesn’t guarantee truth will win. It is often he with the most power who wins. Knowledge isn’t power, power is power. Too sad to contemplate. Thanks for this great report.
Thanks, G.W.