It is strange to me that there is this much concern over whether COVID came from a lab or not because ultimately it is irrelevant outside of highlighting a need for additional safety protocols if proven true. "Virus from a lab" != engineered bioweapon, and regardless of whether infected animals existed in nature, got placed in a lab, and then an infection occurred or whether humans came in contact with infected animals in nature outside of the lab, we still should have employed much better disease management protocols than we did. We (Americans) aren't suddenly absolved of responsibility for our failures to contain this pandemic if it turns out that this was a lab leak, nor will the Chinese be any more responsible for the pandemic than they already are.