This isn't about the public eye, primarily. It's about the "expert" voices in media who report on these things. Most of what can reasonably called the mainstre

This isn't about the public eye, primarily. It's about the "expert" voices in media who report on these things. Most of what can reasonably called the mainstream media was misrepresenting lab leak theories as racist QAnon ramblings for a year before it entered the "it's okay to believe this" realm. This kind of dismissal ends up being the default mode for any idea which doesn't fall within a very narrow approved view of reality.