I'm sorta pissed off about this whole lab leak thing bubbling to the surface again. To me it was a mathematical certainty at almost the dawn of the pandemic that it was clearly a leak. People who I'm close with told me I sounded like a racist conspiracy theorist when all I was doing was making a statistical argument about how many coincidences would have to align to make it not true. I guess that's the nature of the pile-on mentality...people believe what their in group believes without respect to consideration of a fact set that differs from their assumptions in any way. You and I and everyone else are guilty of it in certain contexts, but you'd hope that scientists could rise above it in the name of science. But that's naive too. What was it that Planck said? Something like no one ever changes their beliefs in response to new data; the old people just eventually die.

Edit: I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's annoying that we have to wait for Trump to be out of office for two entire years before we're allowed to use logic. Someone can be right for the wrong reasons, but agreeing with that person doesn't mean you agree with them about everything. There shouldn't be guilt by association.