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'Conspiracy theories have become normalised in Britain', says BBC disinformation correspondent (inews.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the government were honest and open about covid and the lab leak hypothesis and masking from the beginning, no one would lend credence to new outlandish conspiracies.

can we uh... get some elaboration here on what exactly is meant by "honest and open about about covid and the lab leak hypothesis and masking"; as far as i'm aware governments were broadly, if anything, too conservative with their recommendations on how to handle COVID and masking and it's ambiguous what you mean here if you're alluding to that.

as far as i'm aware there's also nothing that privileges the lab leak hypothesis above any other explanation for COVID's origin, except low-confidence speculation by some branches of the US government (who don't all agree on it either).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

get some elaboration here on what exactly is meant by “honest and open about about covid and the lab leak hypothesis and masking”

Careful what you wish for... the mask thing is roughly described below, a cacophony of crazy strories.

the lab leak hypothesis was an idea about the origins of COVID 19 that it had one way or another been in human custody prior to its late 2019 introduction into the general population. it was viewed as a vague outside possibility for a while as most serious scientists were concentrated on trying to deal with the problem as it currently existed. eventually, when there was a bit of time, it was looked into and set aside.

If you feel like you'd enjoy almost 3 hours about this looking at it from every angle with detailed play by play, I reccomend this: Interview with Worobey, Andersen & Holmes: The Lab Leak - Decoding the Gurus one of the panelists was an early proponent of it so very interesting to hear all that went on.