This is not the yiddishkeit that I was mikabel from my rabbeim, including one of the זקני ראשי ישיבה in America. I was encouraged to directly question his eitzos and hadracha until it made sense to me and he would never ever give over a מילתא בלא טאמא and certainly not when it goes against what every בר שכל knows.
This is part of a PM conversation I was having
They are convinced it’s a weaker strain, herd immunity, the flu, masks don’t work, the economy, doctors killing people, false positive, no asymptomatic spread, whatever you hear from people on the street. When there’s an information imbalance or obfuscation (something that is clearly happening) that you believe is influencing the decision you can remove that from the equation of generally trusting a Rav on matters that have all of the factors laid out.
You may ask, why doesn’t he ask a doctor? He probably doesn’t trust doctors in this regard because some people high up in the hierarchy are shoving their prior agendas vis a vis the medical establishment down a more receptive audience’s throats. Remember, nobody *wants* to believe they need to disrupt their lives, so it’s easy enough.