re: #131 retired cynic

a poll reported on this past week shows that almost half of Americans believe the virus was created in a lab

I think this isn’t anti-intellectualism, per se. I think it’s a natural desire to make order out of chaos. Something that can’t be easily explained (whaddya mean someone ate a bat/pangolin/whatever and now a million people are sick and dying? That’s nuts!) in a 30 second elevator pitch slash advertisement is chaos. A lab based outbreak is easier to understand which makes it a more desirable cause.