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> people who lean Democrat don't want to investigate this further because they don't want the Republicans who questioned this at the start to look good if it did happen to come from a lab.

And Biden himself called in February 2020 for US investigators to be let into China.

The entire politicization of this has been disappointing to see.

However, at this point I find it hard to believe if there was actually any evidence of a lab leak that it hasn’t been disappeared by China. We will probably never know unless further research does turn up increasing evidence for a zoonotic origin - on the other hand such research will likely involve the WIV themselves and be viewed with suspicion, I suppose.