> People were so ready to lay Covid's origins at the feet of maligned scientist, because it was so much more comforting, then believing it was a chance mutation....

Kill yourself. Seriously. How retarded this guy can be to believe, that it would be more comforting to believe, that people are creating instruments of total anihilation, then seeing a virus, that goes through all the natural phases, that always result eventually in decrease of deadliness?