Yes, if we are to ignore all the people who refer to their bioweapon theory as “lab leak hypothesis.” Or maybe to put it another way: it’s evident that at leas

Yes, if we are to ignore all the people who refer to their bioweapon theory as “lab leak hypothesis.” Or maybe to put it another way: it’s evident that at least when people think they’re responding to the lab leak hypothesis, they’re responding to a deliberate release scenario. IMO people have deliberately muddied the conversation because if you muddy it one direction you get to imply malice on China’s part, and if you muddy it in the other direction you get to clear China of incompetence. But in any case, not only are we not going to prove or fix malice or incompetence, it doesn’t actually require either to yield COVID-19 or COVID-19-like pandemics anyway. That’s where the conversation should be.