> First, the vast majority of people who insisted on the lab leak theory did it to deflect blame and target China as a scapegoat I don't think this describes a

> First, the vast majority of people who insisted on the lab leak theory did it to deflect blame and target China as a scapegoat I don't think this describes a lot of people. On the contrary, this seems to be an assumption by people who seem to not want to discover the nature/cause of the virus. It's possible to want to "handle" the virus properly at home while also wanting to know what caused it, and that always seemed to me the predominant attitude among those who were open to the lab-leak idea.