By David Wallace-Wells
Sure knowledge of the pandemic’s experimental origin might’ve been a horror to contemplate, given that a lab leak would mean both that the responsibility for all those deaths was human and that it was most likely the result of a tragic mistake. And yet the horror would also offer a silver lining: If human action was responsible for this pandemic, then in theory, human action could prevent the next one as well.
David Wallace-Wells
Link to full article in The New York Times by David Wallace-Wells