Yes, the weapon theory doesn't make sense. But it meets many people's emotional needs. So without a simple and emotionally satisfying alternative - or a serio

Yes, the weapon theory doesn't make sense. But it meets many people's emotional needs. So without a simple and emotionally satisfying alternative - or a serious cost to being wrong - it will be widely believed. Between Chinese officials burying the evidence, and all the political and emotional drama, I doubt we'll ever really settle where the virus came from and how it was released. The pandemic went poorly enough for China that the CCP should be far more interested in preventing repeats than in developing or releasing bioweapons. Similar for other nations' ruling classes. > Not only that, we all just moved on as if nothing happened, despite this event having killed so many ... True, but the 1918 "Spanish" Flu pandemic played out similarly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu Since ancient times, humans have lived in flood plains, near active volcanoes, on hurricane-prone shorelines, and otherwise at risk of large-scale mortality events.