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How is the label "conspiracy" even applicable to a theory where something is speculated to have happened by accident? A huge group of nominally "smart" people
by dns_snek 3y ago
How is the label "conspiracy" even applicable to a theory where something is speculated to have happened by accident?
A huge group of nominally "smart" people have lost their collective minds around the time this pandemic broke out and I've yet to understand what their motivation is.
Everything is black and white; either you're with us or against us; either you're an intellectual who enthusiastically agrees with everything the "authorities" say without asking questions, or you're a nutjob who deserves to be banished from society. How did we get here?
I've seen simplistic explanations that refer to the state of post-2016 US politics, but this behavior extends far outside the US.
- wakawaka28 3y agoThe conspiracy is to cover up the accident, and to deny that any unsavory/illegal research was going on. Some people go even further and think it was intentionally leaked. I wouldn't necessarily go that far. But yes, one could believe in the accident and think everyone else is just honestly ignorant about the nature of the accident. This turned political for multiple reasons, chief among them that Trump said there was a lab leak. The media could not admit anything he said was legit, because they wanted him out. They were also against "rushed vaccines" until a new president was in, then they wanted to force that injection on everyone whether they needed it or not.