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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain to me why it mattered AT THE TIME?
How would knowing how the virus appeared  help Americans in spring of 2020?
How was that a good use of time and resources? [/quote]

We wouldn’t have wasted precious public health resources trying to find an animal reservoir that didn’t exist, we would have substantial international pressure against China who at the time was blocking WHO and other independent investigators from accessing the lab, and more importantly we wouldn’t have had so much damage in trust for the public health and government institutions who were shutting down debate about this despite the obvious signs. People aren’t stupid and suspected a lab leak from the beginning but the way the health experts were reflexively saying it was a conspiracy theory was extremely damaging to the public trust.

Yes, it matters. Even now.[/quote]

So… it really didn’t matter then. Cause I’m not asking why it matters NOW. 
Like it didn’t matter on treatment?
Didn’t matter for testing?
Had nothing to do with social distancing?
Did it help us procure PPE? 
We lost our leverage with China when we dismissed our own in country pandemic response team. Not seeing how immediately jumping to the conclusion of a lab leak was going to help us access anything. In fact it did just the opposite. China did what China does.
It would have been smart to continue doing what the US had been doing since W Bush and  take the threat of a possible pandemic out of China seriously: because China gonna China.
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Curious how well you are keeping up with the news when you comment about things like social distancing. For example Fauci admitted just this week that the six foot rule had no basis in science.  Read Dan Diamond in the WP.[/quote]
Curious how shrieking about a lab leak would have a changed the calculus for social distancing at the beginning of the pandemic. [/quote]

Something something tyranny!, but it sure felt good at the time to yell “China virus!” at Asian-American kids and beat up their grannies while walking down the sidewalk![/quote]

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