Regardless of the origins of Covid-19, there is clearly only one way forward and that way is
One Love:
The story of the chimeric virus accidentally or deliberately released from the Wuhan Virology Lab often doesn't get into addition-of-function viral back histories in US, Australia and Canada labs (e.g., see here).
Concerns have been raised for years about the dangers of this high-tech enterprise (see https://mbio.asm.org/content/5/4/e01730-14.short).
Consequently, I argue that the narrative of covid-19 as a genetically engineered chimeric virus is most compellingly a story of collective responsibility and collective fate.
LESSONS LEARNED
The most important lessons from the story of the Wuhan lab are that technological hubris is our Achilles' heal and that Love and Collaboration for the Welfare of ALL must be prioritized, constituting the only viable path forward.
At this point virus origins are less salient than the question of how to re-build a ruptured global society.
MOVING FORWARD
What kind of social organization can emerge quickly enough with the theorized love and force capable of confronting not only existing apparatuses of exploitation, but also looming and potentially cataclysmic health/environmental challenges?
One thing is certain: People - everyday people - not just politicians and "experts" must be involved in the decisions that will shape what emerges out of the present collapse.
RESOURCES
Baler, Bret, & Re, Gregg. April 15, 2020 Sources believe
coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab as part of China’s efforts to compete with
US. Fox News. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-china-compete-us-sources
Josh Campbell, Kylie Atwood and Evan Perez, Thu April 16,
2020 US explores possibility that
coronavirus started in Chinese lab, not a market CNN. Updated 10:37 AM ET, https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/us-intelligence-virus-started-chinese-lab/index.html
Nadesan, Majia (2012). Commonwealth [review]. Organization https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350508411431909