> The political context is a debate about regulating virus labs This seems... like a naive read of the "political context." It seems like there is far more int

> The political context is a debate about regulating virus labs This seems... like a naive read of the "political context." It seems like there is far more interest in finding a useful target for blame than any real discussion of how to keep research like that safe, which will likely happen in approximately the same scale whether this WAS a lab leak or not, if only because the specter of it being one has done quite a lot to scare people.