the lab leak theory is wild lol

@Mamapolo2016 not in its most bare iterations. its certainly possibly it leaked out of a lab somewhere. in the same sense that anything is possible so long as you can imagine it.
to me its an Occam's razor thing.

there's a solid 2+ decades of epidemiologists saying "we are overdue for a major pandemic and it will most likely be a coronavirus". far more likely to have been caused by ecosystem destruction/habitat incursion by development.

Plus, the lab leak theory interestingly absolves western governments of any responsibility of their handling of the virus in their respective countries. Much easier to say it was a 'bioweapon' than it is to say "we demonstrably don't have any systems in place to handle a pandemic"

@NoahB That's true. But an accidental lab leak doesn't absolve anybody from being screwups.

@Mamapolo2016 it kind of does in the grand narrative of things. thats why right wingers are buying into it so hard.

@NoahB Only if you're prone to only listen and not think. How it's presented has little to do with fact, only spin.

Once it got here, it could have been handled far far better.

@NoahB Then maybe you should call it the "deliberate leak theory", because an accidental leak is not w/out its plausibility.