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> Similarly, I can't recall a time that lab leak wasn't considered a conservative conspiracy among my social circles, and that does include a conservative group
by shkkmo 5y ago
> Similarly, I can't recall a time that lab leak wasn't considered a conservative conspiracy among my social circles, and that does include a conservative group from my hometown. In the exact same groups I do recall a rapid swapping of position on masks however.
That seems to imply what I was saying: The confusion wasn't purely partisan. Though, partisanship certainly didn't help with nuanced communication.
I found the partisanship on both sides of the aisle absolutely appalling during this pandemic.
- caddemon 5y agoYeah that's fair, it's never going to be easy for the general public to stay correctly informed on rapidly evolving technical topics. But once some piece of misinformation got too deeply entrenched on one side the partisanship took over pretty hard. Maybe that's nothing new, I am relatively young, but something about it does feel like it's getting worse.