There’s always a debt to the truth. We put the COVID debt on a high-interest credit card to get people locked down and get vaccines out. The balance is due.
It is obvious that the measures that were taken have a high cost [0]. On the other hand if they were not taken there would be a high cost as well.
I was arguing that knowing the true origin of the virus is not very important.
[0] It does not really matter for this subject if you define cost as just money or human happiness.