In A Perfect World....

"What if researchers discover that SARS-CoV-2 really *did* begin in bats, or pangolins, or frozen meat? These outcomes wouldn’t make the risk of lab leaks go away, yet they’d surely shrink the scientific community’s inclination to address it." https://t.co/Lv6zElDaW6

— Adrienne LaFrance (@AdrienneLaF) May 26, 2021

Sure. But we live in this world:

Tennessee anti-vaxxer arrested after deliberately plowing car through vaccination site https://t.co/0gCj1YQEvh

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) May 26, 2021

So the merest hint of credence given to "It Came From The Laboratory!" and anti-Asian sentiment/assaults on people who "look" Asian (let's face it, it's what the bigots and the stupid go on) would take off like a bottle rocket.  Not to mention still more screaming about the "Communist Party of China," and all kinds of demands we "do something" to them.  I mean, do you watch the White House daily briefings?

How is it possible that someone is so bad at their job but is still encouraged to do it daily?

WATCH: Fox News’ Peter Doocy gets expertly smacked down by Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre https://t.co/L4hjcY34KH

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 26, 2021

And that's the third day in a row for Doocy. He's like the old inflated clown with a weighted base: knock him over, he bounces back up again.  So sure, let's forget facts and behave like covid-19 escaped from a lab in China.

What could go wrong?*

*Yes, I understand the argument from a scientific/public health/security of viruses point of view.  I don't have to read the article to imagine the proposition.  But given how poorly public health issues are faring in the country right now, who doesn't see this proposal as throwing a lit match into the gasoline?

NEW: The Senate unanimously passed a bill from Sen. Josh Hawley requiring the DNI to declassify “any and all information” about the covid "lab leak" theory within 90 days. https://t.co/zpboqhK4AI

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) May 27, 2021

Because, yeah, this will help a lot.