It isn't media fiasco. Media is a business, and they have been selling what has been selling well - i.e. people were buying it very well. It is fiasco of peopl

It isn't media fiasco. Media is a business, and they have been selling what has been selling well - i.e. people were buying it very well. It is fiasco of people believing media without applying basic reality check. In this particular case, the people would easily believe in the coincidence of a very low probability that a virus would jump to humans at the same time and right near, yet without any connection to, the lab where the virus was being bred to do exactly that (the "gain of function research") while dismissing outright the much more probable no-coincidence version of events. Pointing that more than a year ago cost me some karma, and will probably cost me today too :) After such profound failure of the basic thinking, the people instead of recognizing the failure on their part are still and again blaming media. And the next time the media comes with a well selling, yet failing basic logic/probability/reality/etc check, story the people would again believe in it whole heartedly. Ad infinitum... Btw, how is that for conspiracy theory - associating the lab leak idea with conspiracy theorism, right wing nut-jobbery and racism was just a successful "damage control" PR operation by China government (and probably by some actors in US as US was partially funding that research in the Wuhan labs after closing such research in US because of the dangers of that research).