All I can take away from this is that it really doesn't matter where it came from. The real problem is dealing with something like this was a failure on so many levels regardless of where it came from. The OP definitely finishes with the emotional desire to blame that still doesn't change the fact that the despair is not from where it came from but rather our global dealing with it.
Ask yourself - if you were the CN government, with all of the information you're withholding from scientists, researchers, NGOs, etc. If you truly believe it was a zoonotic origin wouldn't you do everything possible to exonerate yourself?<p>Again, if you were the CN government and it was a lab leak that got out of control, what would you do/say.<p>All I'm saying is - if they shared the basic data that international researchers and NGOs were asking for, we'd be MUCH closer to the truth...a rather inconvenient one for them.
I can't find it but I remember a midwit meme circulating with the lab leak theory on the tails when people were shouting down the idea and thought that that iteration of the midwit meme would never be topped.<p><a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit" rel="nofollow">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/iq-bell-curve-midwit</a><p>Edit: ahh here it is<p><a href="https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-midwit-meme-and-the-rittenhouse" rel="nofollow">https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/the-midwit-meme-and-the-ri...</a>
Humans really have a tough time dealing with nuance it seems. We’ll never really know for sure but yeah maybe it did come from the lab, maybe from somewhere else.