This comment is going to be controversial but hopefully we can have some genuine discussion about it. I am personally of the opinion that Covid isn't a big conspiracy from the elites but I am in the camp that believes it more likely than not came about as a lab accident. What worries me about China's zero covid policy, is that it doesn't really seem to have much benefit for the people in power. It doesn't benefit the CCP economically, it doesn't benefit them politically. So why are they persisting with it? I really, really hope it is because of internal reasons to do with Chinese culture and power structures that are non-obvious for outsiders looking in and not because the CCP has seen lab research and knows or strongly suspects something regarding the long term health implications of Covid infection that the West is currently oblivious to.