From our own experience, we can give testimony to what we have seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt. For things we do not experience direclty, we are relaying the messages of others. People who knowingly distort truth—e.g. to conform to some narrative they are paid to tell—we call liars.

Nowadays, there is pressure in many directions for people to relay/repost messages from all sorts of parties. They are asked to repeat slogans, to dnounce this-or-that. Many people will repeat nice sounding words out of courtesy to the person asking or simply because they don't want to imply they are disagreeing with some sentiment by refusing to do so.

The current "virtual" climate brought upon us by top-down policies in response to a reported viral threat is one in which we are often called upon to reaffirm our belief in a particular narrative.

Personally, I have no first-hand accounts to relay about the severity of this virus stuff. I can see the policies enacted around me and the damage they have caused, but I cannot say how the often spoken of biological threat has(n't) threatened me. I obey rules to fulfill a duty to obey civil authorities so long as they are not asking me to do anything morally compromising.

As we are seeing organizations deciding what is going to happen in the upcoming year, what is there to expect? It seems to be... more closing down of small to medium sized businesses while the large corporations and government-associated businesses continue operations in accordance with all the rules.

Since things like money (USD), communications, and increasingly transporation is so centralized, people are being increasingly disenfranchised from means to assert their autonomy with respect to basic things like: which people they meet, where they go, and who they pay.