If by "turned out fine" you mean having significantly more deaths than neighboring countries and still suffering economic issues, sure.
And significantly fewer deaths than countries that closed schools for years or arrested people for walking alone in parks.
Survival rate ignores long-term damage, which we are still learning about today, and is an ignorant statistic to use.
Ok, just also make sure to include the psychological and economic costs of NPIs, which we are also still learning about. Remember the teacher's unions saying that learning loss was a myth and kids are "resilient"?
And not a single US Intelligence agency has come out strongly in favor of the Wuhan Lab theory, beyond one saying it's "plausible."
Two agencies lean toward a lab leak, others toward natural origin, none with high confidence (https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origi...). A lab leak origin is perhaps less likely than the alternative, but it's a entirely reasonable hypothesis.
> And significantly fewer deaths than countries that closed schools for years or arrested people for walking alone in parks.
Which country had schools closed for years? Not the US.
> Ok, just also make sure to include the psychological and economic costs of NPIs, which we are also still learning about. Remember the teacher's unions saying that learning loss was a myth and kids are "resilient"?
Oh, the "I want to kill my parents to save the economy" argument. Gotcha. Just to be clear, which of your parents would you off to save your 401k?
I'll answer your question once I know where you land on that.
> Two agencies lean toward a lab leak, others toward natural origin, none with high confidence (https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origi...). A lab leak origin is perhaps less likely than the alternative, but it's a entirely reasonable hypothesis.
Plausible. The world you are looking for is plausible, and only one of the two, out of more than a dozen. Only one is plausible, not two. And plausible does not mean, in any way, "leaning toward." So no.
And significantly fewer deaths than countries that closed schools for years or arrested people for walking alone in parks.
Survival rate ignores long-term damage, which we are still learning about today, and is an ignorant statistic to use.
Ok, just also make sure to include the psychological and economic costs of NPIs, which we are also still learning about. Remember the teacher's unions saying that learning loss was a myth and kids are "resilient"?
And not a single US Intelligence agency has come out strongly in favor of the Wuhan Lab theory, beyond one saying it's "plausible."
Two agencies lean toward a lab leak, others toward natural origin, none with high confidence (https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/wray-fbi-covid-origi...). A lab leak origin is perhaps less likely than the alternative, but it's a entirely reasonable hypothesis.