THE impeachment trial of President Joseph Estrada in late 2000s — which was then a novel political box office hit in the Philippines — attracted so much attention that almost everyone became a lawyer overnight. This coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is commanding the same mass of cynosure, although in a morbid way, that almost everyone has become a medical expert in the last few days that we clicked and scrolled down webpages.

The Estrada trial created a spectacle from experts whose opinions, such as in the process of verifying an impeachment information, were diametrically opposed to each other. They differed despite having finished law from the same school, at about the same time, probably having read the same books and been taught by the same set of professors.

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