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Whether the virus jumped to humans because someone handled the wrong bat or because some junior lab tech didn’t wash their hands shouldn’t really matter as far as reparations go

>>xadhom+(OP)
True. But what if the virus was enhanced in a lab and then escaped? The enhancers and the guards would be liable.

>>effie+r7
Yes if the virus was weaponized and then escaped that would matter, but that’s a different topic

>>xadhom+(OP)
Yes. The lab leak hypothesis is tightly intertwined with the idea that China is not acting on good faith with the global community.

The CCP prohibited the virus's genetic sequence from being published. After a lab published it, it was shut down.

>On 11 January, Edward C. Holmes contacted Zhang for permission to publish the virus's genome. Zhang granted permission, and Holmes published the genome on virological.org that day.[1][3] The Chinese government had prohibited labs from publishing information about the new coronavirus, though Zhang later said he did not know about the prohibition.[3] The next day, the Shanghai Health Commission ordered Zhang's laboratory to close temporarily for "rectification".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yongzhen#COVID-19_pand...