The term 'Davos Man' was originally coined by the Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington in an essay entitled 'Dead Souls'. It was intended to describe a member of "an emerging global superclass", or "gold collar workers", who owed more.
For more than a year after the onset of the pandemic, talking about the possibility that the virus might have been lab-engineered was taboo. Then, as the evidence continued to mount, it suddenly became acceptable to talk about it in "respectable".