I think this ignores why the "lab leak" theory was being squashed in public: 1. There was no evidence 2. The conspiracies going around in early days prompting

I think this ignores why the "lab leak" theory was being squashed in public: 1. There was no evidence 2. The conspiracies going around in early days prompting the response was that China manufactured the virus as a weapons and/or released it on purpose. 3. There was no evidence People were reading the WHO reports as information was coming in and they were talking about no transmission outside familial groups and saying "Ahah! The WHO is in China's pocket, they were lying about the virus!" or "They are incompetent and don't know what they are doing!". Zero understanding that the reports were pretty much just raw information and analysis on what was known at the time. This was just over a year ago peeps, but people were forgetting like 2 months on haha.