Simpler hypothesis: if's it's a lab-leak, all the dead can be blamed on the Party itself because it failed securing the labs and it ended up killing it's own ci

Simpler hypothesis: if's it's a lab-leak, all the dead can be blamed on the Party itself because it failed securing the labs and it ended up killing it's own citizens. Thus you have an incentive to do everything possible to minimize the number of dead, thus lockdowns.