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Re:The history of lab leaks by shkkmo on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:02PM (#27311286)
This article recently posted to HN examines the whole process:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27307175

TL;DR lots of conflation of "lab leak" with "man made".

Re:The history of lab leaks by gred on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:05AM (#27311623)
> TL;DR lots of conflation of "lab leak" with "man made".

Mixed with media sensationalism and political tribalism...

Actually, the most interesting part of the linked article (IMO) was the suggestion that it actually doesn't matter whether or not it was a lab leak, because nothing will change one way or the other. I would hope that's wrong.