It may not be that we now love conspiracy freaks (as you put it) because they're so open minded, but that now it doesn't matter anymore to sidetrack the convers

It may not be that we now love conspiracy freaks (as you put it) because they're so open minded, but that now it doesn't matter anymore to sidetrack the conversation from "how can we fix it" to "whodunnit". Different period in the pandemic, rather than a shift in mindset from whether pointing fingers without evidence is helpful.