Miscellanea regarding the 2020's era and VirusRegime

Rather than a full essay, I'll write some observations that may be a post in the future.

• Metaphysical assumptions are important for how and why people have reacted the way they did at the inauguration of the VirusRegime. I recommend Bruce Charlton's posts on the topic.
• Likewise, people's attitudes towards religion. If you see religion as entirely (or even mostly) a man-made, man-centered affair, your reaction to the VirusRegime and VirusWar will shift accordingly. Catholics and Protestants alike can fall in either camp (and Pope Francis falls into the man-centered camp, given his disdain for preconciliar Catholic rites).
• The VirusRegime has allowed "science" to use government and corporations as an end-run around the ethics of human experimentation and government to use "science" as an end-run around the rights of citizens.
• Professionalization of science has ruined the institution. Academia, biotech and pharmaceutical companies are all motivated by profitability, whether they admit it or not. "Science" will not speak out against the abuses of VirusRegime (test-and-trace, coerced masking and Pecking) because doing so will upset the gravy train.
• As science is right now, a student/technician/postdoc who is in the field to pursue truth makes as much sense as a vegan working in a slaughterhouse.
• One of the metaphysical/epistemic dividing lines between liberals and traditionalists (which maps to VirusCultists and VirusResistors, respectively) is whether Truth is a fixed category or changes with the times. See John 14:6 and Hebrews 13:8.
• Inward belief without outward action leads inevitably to disbelief. The VirusRegime doesn't care if you realize it's founded entirely on sensationalist lies - if it can intimidate you into wearing the mask or taking the Peck just for the sake of human respect or continuity of employment/lifestyle, it has already won.
• The VirusRegime admitted it lied about the issue of masks in early 2020. (Summary: Dr. T*ny F**ci said not to wear masks, then the US Surgeon General's office said the reason was to prevent a consumer run on mask supplies). This is akin to pulling out the central base card in a card tower, yet VirusCultists still are convincing themselves that the tower stands.
• All the events of recent history make more sense once you realize that satan and his apostate angels have free reign over governance of the earth.