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Yes but we know it was one or the other, and I think we need to follow both paths regardless. We are unlikely to ever know definitively which one it was. And a

• rich_sasha 3y ago
  > we know it was one or the other Well we don't really, and to me that's part of the problem. Until we know, we don't know. > And all of the effort debating lab leak or not just distracts time and attention from actual efforts to prevent it from happening again. In America perhaps, and other polarized polities. As a scientist, again, I cannot comprehend how anyone can see this as a waste of time. We will surely learn a lot from tracking it through time. I see that the polarising labels got stuck to this issue, and it's unfortunate, but it is in no way inherent to the question.