[corty]

> I imagine we'll see some monumental changes in Chinese lab safety after this, independent of whether or not they believe it came from a lab.

No, we won't. That would be the party admitting it was wrong before, which can never happen outside of a coup.

[roenxi]

The party are many things, many of them bad. But they do not like global pandemics. And I expect many of them are quite elderly (eg, Xi Jingping is 68) and feel personally threatened by exotic new diseases.

I reckon they'll act.