The countermeasures to prevent future lab leaks are not the same as the countermeasures to prevent natural viruses. We should take lab safety more seriously and stop enhancing the lethality of viruses regardless of what happened with Covid, but we have failed to do so, probably in part because of denial of the lab leak.

> they're not interested in a mask mandate against a naturally occuring virus, but if they can tie the exact same genetically identical virus to a human enemy? The social status of the threat goes up!

Oh, that's what it is? I never had a model for such thinking.