> the discussion at the time was about a the virus literally being a bio-weapon, This was the part that media outlets and government seized upon to call any di

> the discussion at the time was about a the virus literally being a bio-weapon, This was the part that media outlets and government seized upon to call any discussion of the lab leak theory racist. There was no "discussion" about covid being a "bio-weapon," it was a bunch of anti-China hawks repeating it over and over again based on absolutely nothing. They were so obviously nationalist anti-Chinese that the theory that covid happened because Chinese people are dirty and eat weird diseased things was able to be sold as the not-racist theory.