It seems most likely at this point that we'll never truly know where COVID-19 came from. However, with both the FBI and the Department of Energy listing a lab leak as the most likely explanation for the virus's origin, that theory still seems very much on the table.
And I think a lot of people are kind of pissed off about that. We just spent three years telling Conservatives they're crazy for thinking COVID came from a Wuhan lab, and now we find out they might have been right all along?
Well, not really. For starters, five intelligence agencies still list natural transmission as the most likely origin for COVID, so we still don't know what we're talking about either way.
But beyond that, this was never really about whether COVID was a lab leak or not. I'm not a virologist or health official and don't know anything about how viruses emerge, but I think most people truly educated on the matter knew the lab leak was at least a possibility.
This was always about shutting people up that, when faced with a question and a lack of evidence pointing to a clear answer, defaulted to the most overtly xenophobic answer. Whether COVID was a lab leak or not, the truth of the matter is nobody knew, but instead of accepting that ambiguity of not knowing, we chose to accuse China of screwing the whole world over with their carelessness and/or malice.
Something could come out in a year and once and for all confirm COVID indeed leaked from a lab, and if that happens, conservatives will be showering the world in "I told you so" messages. And I truly will not care. Because getting lucky because you were racist doesn't make you "right" to me. It just makes you racist.
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