People enjoy joining conspiracy communities because it makes life feel meaningful. I watched one of my neighbors warp into a 9/11 truther and in the last few years I run into a lot of people online who wake up in the morning and have to inform everybody about the latest discoveries they've made about how everything the government has done about COVID-19 is wrong, not just because people were having to make decisions in a hurry with limited information, but because the people involved are evil.

My first take on that article was that my answer to 5 of the 7 of the questions at the top are ambigious. For #1 for instance I think there is no real proof of the lab leak hypothesis but that it is also not implausible.