What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis? – UnHerd

Imagine if the accidental launch of a nuclear missile had killed 21 million people. It s hard to believe the world would shrug and say: let s not bother finding out how it happened. The Covid pandemic has killed around that number and disrupted the lives of billions. Nothing like it has happened in more than a century; it is the greatest cause of global suffering since the Forties. Yet we still do not know how it started, and much of the world seems to be increasingly incurious to find out.

via unherd.com

We also need to understand the source of this reluctance. I hypothesize it’s the people whose interests would not be served by the revelation.