Internet comments are beyond lousy with people of a a certain ideological bent that makes them love institutionalized science while also paternalistically racist.

Given the choice between blaming "the system" and all the ideologically unimaginable questions that would come with that and blaming some elderly Chinese guy who didn't cook his bat soup well enough, well that's not really a choice.

Imagine trying to tell some mid tier guy in the Taliban about the pros of educated women. It's just gonna bounce right off. That it could ever be worth it is just incomprehensibly foreign to him.

The lab leak theory bounced right off of a lot of people here for all the same reasons.