I think that authorities anywhere, government, corporate or otherwise, are people like you and me who have, by sheer luck or nepotism, been granted arbitrary privilege. In many cases, they're less equipped to contend with their duties than you or I might be. They take themselves too seriously and think that by virtue of being in authority, they are somehow authoritative. So if they aren't giving us the straight dope on the covid biz, it's probably just because they're idiots and not out of any kind of malice.
I do think the economy - the whole freaking thing from east to west and north to south - is going to go belly up before too long. This experiment in advanced industrial civilization has to collapse eventually so whatever comes next can start rolling along. It's entropy in action. I'm not really looking forward to having to live through it, though. I'm in the states, and it's already a three-ring circus here.
