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What does this actually change? If China did indeed release the virus, does that mean I should not take a vaccine? That I should stop wearing a mask?

If China knows and is hiding it, I'm still not clear what that changes. They'll still know to improve their safety practices

>>8note+(OP)
It means culpability. A better understanding of the dangers of experimenting with deadly viruses.

All of this contributes to the history and scientific corpus of what not to do, and lessons to learn from in the future that we can point to as what can happen in lab leak scenarios.

It's hard to accept in good faith the proposition that not knowing the truth of what happened is preferable to knowing the truth.