The population has lost trust in large institutions, but they also don't believe in a god or in anything else, so most people are just scared and double down.
Because if the government is wrong, and "science" literally caused the problem by playing with "gain of function" research, then they have nothing left to believe in their lives.
And yet we continue to suck down news-products manufactured by "large institutions", commercial, governental and otherwise, as if they were God's own gospel.
Because if the government is wrong, and "science" literally caused the problem by playing with "gain of function" research, then they have nothing left to believe in their lives.