[friend_and_foe]

I'm just responding to what you said, I'm assuming that's what you meant so that's what I had in mind when I wrote what I wrote, yes.

[ethanbond]

This is one of the problems with discussing the lab leak hypothesis is that it refers to two very different theories: accidental vs deliberate leak.

I was primarily referring to the accidental version because deliberate is way less believable than accidental.