> Oh there _was_ nothing wrong with it, but /most/ people were using it to be xenophobic or racist (QED). Wait but less flippantly phrased this was exactly the

> Oh there _was_ nothing wrong with it, but /most/ people were using it to be xenophobic or racist (QED). Wait but less flippantly phrased this was exactly the problem earlier on. People who wanted to absolve our own abject failure to prepare or deal with the virus started acting like the lab leak theory was a proven fact and thus since it was all chinas fault we could stop quarantining and if only we frothed with nationalistic sanctimony our lives would return to normal. The problem was three fold. 1) the leak was an especially unproven theory back then with very little evidence either way, i.e just pure speculation. 2) the way it was used to absolve ourselves of being ill prepared, even if it wasn’t speculation there is no excuse for our preparedness 3) it was used for racist propaganda and we don’t need to sound like America is moving to Japanese internment camps 2.0, China edition. It’s not helpful and just gives the CCP propaganda fodder that harms our actual efforts resolving our justified grievances against the Chinese government.