[anonu]

> conspiracy narrative

implies people conspired to create a pandemic. Which detracts from the first point of it being a lab-leak.

> what can be stated without evidence can be as easily dismissed without evidence

So we should never develop a hypothesis? Given the lack of any indicators lending support to any of the plausible hypotheses put forward, I think its fair game to discuss the lab leak version.

If you recall in the early days of the pandemic, the lab-leak theory become a politically divisive one in the US, pitting right against left for no good reason other than the fact that the "other side" held an undesirable view. It was labeled as a conspiracy theory, incorrectly. It is very simply, a theory, and it should be discussed on par with any other theory.