The point about rationalizing with your Neocortex what your reptile brain has decided to do, in the current case go along with the Scamdemic, is a central one indeed. Since we have seen it happen live and in a short time on front of our eyes, it has become very visible and visceral; the digital information networks certainly also helped proliferating the knowledge, and it's interesting and eye-opening to apply it to recent decades and centuries.