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> Lab accidents were going to happen and are going to happen regardless of where COVID came from. China as a nation isn't exactly responsible and whatever peopl

> Lab accidents were going to happen and are going to happen regardless of where COVID came from. China as a nation isn't exactly responsible and whatever people do next will be more about geopolitics than about details like the virus' genesis. The Wuhan lab where this supposedly originated from was a BSL-4 lab. These aren't accidents, this is negligence. The lab had safety problems and wasn't meeting BSL-4 requirements. Chinese researchers at the lab raised concerns about lack of qualified technicians, and lack of resources. This is negligence. If the Wuhan BSL-4 lab was the source of Covid-19, this is absolutely the fault of China. No one is blaming Chinese people or Chinese citizens for this, but China as a government is responsible. Furthermore, it does matter. Finding the source matters. If nothing changes, and root causes aren't fixed, it will happen again. Just dismissing this as an inevitability is a dangerous attitude.

roenxi 5y ago
Pandemics are inevitable, we have a near miss every decade or so. Some of them will be near hits whether or not COVID came from a lab. COVID doesn't even seem to be that bad vs. some of the ones that occurred naturally - look at AIDS. I dunno, what do you think someone outside China can do if it turns out to be a lab leak? If anyone had any ability to influence China's policy, stopping COVID is meaningless compared to efforts promoting peace in the South China Sea which is a much bigger threat. The next big war will be devastating in a way that makes COVID look like the good old days.