JohnSnowNW
Active Member
It's unfortunate that China went with the hide the ball approach to this disaster.
It's also disturbing that there were those in media and the US government that "condemned", canceled, de-platformed, de-legitimized, called racist, or banned those who gave some credence or consideration to the lab leak theory.
I think it's important to remember that the same people that latched onto the virus being of "lab origin" were also pushing other pseudo-science nonsense at the time. Which didn't help with credibility. Acknowledgement of the theory, which there was even less evidence of at the time, wouldn't have had an impact on the outcome of, or the response to, the pandemic.
I will also say this, you'd think that the Chinese would have had a leg up in combating the virus if it was something they were working on in a lab...but I've seen no evidence of this.