> A lot of people, some for good reason and some for bad, just don't trust their governments (or the media) enough One only has to look around HN for posts ab

> A lot of people, some for good reason and some for bad, just don't trust their governments (or the media) enough One only has to look around HN for posts about using the current crisis for various unrelated political and economic goals to understand why this might be. Why, just in the last three minutes on HN, I came across media sources advocating everything from nationalizing Amazon (now that it's "a public good" because of the crisis) to permanently banning the use of vehicles in cities (now that the crisis has shown how lovely the inner city air is when both cars and factories all stop). Nobody's willing to let a crisis "go to waste", and so nobody trusts anybody to be giving them true information untainted by their ulterior motives. Not trusting that the government and the media have your best interests at heart is simply being aware of how things are.