If we omit the 2020 US presidential elections, and all the propaganda that was pushed to gaslight the people and downplay the danger posed by the epidemic, and

If we omit the 2020 US presidential elections, and all the propaganda that was pushed to gaslight the people and downplay the danger posed by the epidemic, and afterwards the desperate attempt to shift the blame away from the way that ball was fumbled and onto a scapegoat, any debate over the origin of covid-19 is clearly a waste of time.