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Or depending on your leaning lots to see here.

Which lean do you have in mind? The one towards facts, or the one towards idle speculation? It's certainly possible that there was some a contamination or leak from that laboratory. One of the lab workers could have accidentally infected themselves, been presymptomatic for a week, and gone on to cause a pandemic. Indeed, in 2015 there was an explosion at a lab in Russia that houses both Small Pox and Ebola that raised the alarm for how easily one error could cause a global pandemic. Fortunately in that case it didn't affect storage of those viruses, but clearly security for laboratories working on contagious viruses needs to be beefed up. 

Of course, one thing noted in the cables is that although State Dep't officials begged for added support, the U.S. government did not respond to the request:

Sources familiar with the cables said they were meant to sound an alarm about the grave safety concerns at the WIV lab, especially regarding its work with bat coronaviruses. The embassy officials were calling for more U.S. attention to this lab and more support for it, to help it fix its problems. “The cable was a warning shot,” one U.S. official said. “They were begging people to pay attention to what was going on.” No extra assistance to the labs was provided by the U.S. government in response to these cables.

So, even if the lab was the source of the pandemic, in theory we knew about this as a risk and yet did nothing?

[2006alum]

Or depending on your leaning lots to see here.

Which lean do you have in mind? The one towards facts, or the one towards idle speculation? It's certainly possible that there was some a contamination or leak from that laboratory. One of the lab workers could have accidentally infected themselves, been presymptomatic for a week, and gone on to cause a pandemic. Indeed, in 2015 there was an explosion at a lab in Russia that houses both Small Pox and Ebola that raised the alarm for how easily one error could cause a global pandemic. Fortunately in that case it didn't affect storage of those viruses, but clearly security for laboratories working on contagious viruses needs to be beefed up. 

Of course, one thing noted in the cables is that although State Dep't officials begged for added support, the U.S. government did not respond to the request:

Sources familiar with the cables said they were meant to sound an alarm about the grave safety concerns at the WIV lab, especially regarding its work with bat coronaviruses. The embassy officials were calling for more U.S. attention to this lab and more support for it, to help it fix its problems. “The cable was a warning shot,” one U.S. official said. “They were begging people to pay attention to what was going on.” No extra assistance to the labs was provided by the U.S. government in response to these cables.

So, even if the lab was the source of the pandemic, in theory we knew about this as a risk and yet did nothing?