>there was very little consideration or toleration for anyone suggesting it may have been a lab leak This wasn't my observation. There was a lot of championing

>there was very little consideration or toleration for anyone suggesting it may have been a lab leak This wasn't my observation. There was a lot of championing of the theory motivated by politics or xenophobia, a lot of backlash against that attitude, and a little reasonable hypothesizing suggesting a lab leak. Of the three, the last was by necessity least common because there was so little evidence. That may create a false impression that the "lab leak" voice was oppressed, when what you're actually seeing is the result of the high levels of ideological pollution in the "lab leak" voice itself.