"Trust in science, medicine, evidence-based thinking and decision-making, and rational thinking in general.Contrarian dipshits effectively leveraged social media and other outlets to exploit the fear and panic of the pandemic to push their chaotic nonsense, and we have not yet recovered from that. And we may never."

Citations or STFU
Pay attention to the F'ing news or STFU
The silver lining of it was the exposure of liars and corruption - as you listed.
This is exactly what the post is about. No, there is still no evidence the virus was manmade. It's a possibility, but we still don't know. Yes, they were guessing and at least in my country they were very open with that. 'we don't know exactly, we're still doing research, but better safe than sorry'. When they found out there was no need for the rules, they were lifted.
and the corruption of the leaders has nothing to do with science. In the most countries I am aware of, people keep voting for the most corrupt person, like in the US, so there's that
"My family"
listed.
Netherlands btw.