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When I first heard the lab leak hypothesis around Feb or March 2020, it was entirely non-partisan and was being investigated by people who had no skin in the political game. At the same time, some other politically-motivated people were claiming that the virus was both a "democratic hoax", and a "bioweapon" made by China and deliberately released on their own people so that it could be blamed on the US and embarrass the US President. Now, those same politically motivated people are tying themselves to the lab leak theory, because none of their other nonsense panned out.

I'm surprised that people had forgotten this already. You don't hear much about a "democratic hoax" or a "bioweapon" nowadays, but those words were a part of the conversation a year ago.

Note that the phrase "politically motivated people" was substituted for the original term "whack jobs", which I think is more appropriate; however, your asked me to use "non charged terms", so I did my best.