> Or squelched the official US government position that it couldn't be a lab leak?

That anyone cared if it was or wasn't, continues to surprise me.

Either way, the lab is in China and you can't do anything about it.

Either way, the virus came from China and you can't do anything about it.

Either way, China tried to suppress news initially and this allowed it to spread faster and sooner than it might otherwise have done.

Either way, wet markets were and remain a known breeding ground for novel zoonotic diseases that we'd like to not be like that, but we can't do anything about them because they're in China and we have no say in the matter.

Either way, the response to it has to be the same — it was out of control and killing people just the same, regardless of origin.