Oh yeah, I agree with that. Like you said it would have large impacts in virology and in the geopolitical sense as well since I'm sure western leaders will try to move any disease and vaccine research out of this lab in a reactionary sense by claiming they can't handle any future disease or vaccine research because of this accident.

To clarify what I mean by it being "irrelevant" to me personally, I mean in the sense that it's irrelevant to most local organizing, tenant or mutual aid, I've done and many other comrades across the country have done in the last year, with trying to help with the symptoms of the global pandemic and the awful response here. Whether covid came from a lab accident or the wild, our government still failed us in providing even the smallest safety net to improve people's material conditions, and we had to step up and organize and agitate around it. That's not to say I am advocating for scientific illiteracy, but that at some point things have far too many degrees of separation in the current moment from affecting or improving material conditions in the now.