> I never met anyone who didn't equate "lab leak" with an intentional act by china You must have a very conspiratorial group of friends / contacts ! I followe

> I never met anyone who didn't equate "lab leak" with an intentional act by china You must have a very conspiratorial group of friends / contacts ! I followed the whole covid story pretty closely, and as I recall "lab leak" was taken by almost everyone as "accidental lab leak". Was the lab perhaps doing some type of "gain of function" research that they were not meant to be doing? TBD, but the massive (as it turns out) initial over-reaction to covid in China certainly doesn't look like something they intended to inflict on themselves (as well as eventually the rest of the world).