> ...the boring truth is that we don’t know where Covid-19 came from, we probably aren’t going to find out, and very little of consequence actually hinges on the answer. [emphasis mine]
> Of course, politically it’s a big deal. The case for stricter supervision of virus-related lab ...
Pandemics caused by new infectious diseases were a ~regular thing long before humans had labs studying viruses. Experts familiar with coronaviruses had been sounding alarm bells since the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003. It's d*mn obvious that local government officials in China completely botched the initial response, then a huge number of other government officials botched their own responses, all over the world.
The endless arguments about "who's at fault" for COVID-19...my biggest take-away from them is that the world is really disfunctional, and there's minimal interest in making the future any better.
Happily for me, I'm rather old, and probably won't be around for most of really bad years that the average HN'er will have to live through.