That's the first time I've seen a decent argument about why it might matter.<p>But I'd still say "no, it doesn't matter", because the risk arguments for <i>future</i> pandemics due to each cause remain as they were in the absence of Covid:<p>• Labs doing safety wrong was already a thing, and this is worth improving because they still are<p>• Wet markets were already known to be a pandemic risk, and still are<p>Considered a different way, we may get multiple future pandemics from <i>both</i> sources.<p>Two independent Poisson distributions going forward is more important than one single Bayesian inference of the past.