[lamontcg]

Zoonotic spillover is likely increasing in China due to climate change, more human-animal contact and animal farming, it probably has a large "determinstic" background.

Of course if you go down that rabbithole then you might wind up concluding that the vegans have been right all along, which certain groups might find an unpalatable result.

[tgv]

I don't think you have to attribute it to some interest at stake: if it is zoonotic, people see it as the cost of living. Of course, that has to be changed, but it's a boring conclusion, and unlikely to cause a change quickly, because we are slow as molasses. A lab leak is more exciting, should not happen, gives more to discuss, and can be outlawed easier. I think that explains that there's more interest.

I'm still on the fence, BTW.