"Unsubstantiated accusations and defamation regarding a charity foundation that has funded numerous medical initiatives and vaccination programs in the less developed areas of the planet only contributes to the toxic sentiment that pollutes public discourse."

You're not wrong, which is why I did not accuse anyone of anything. It is not an accusation to note that a biological warfare lab is in a city whence a pandemic issues. It is evidence, however. Neither did I accuse the foundation or Johns Hopkins, despite Johns Hopkins prior crimes against humanity spreading virulent infectious diseases deliberately to innocent civilians that did not know they were being existentially injured, but noting the pandemic study that was conducted just prior to that exact pandemic beginning is evidence, and damn suspicious.

Suspecting criminals of crimes is not defamatory. Suspicion naturally inures to others that associate with criminals, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has itself been guilty of injuring people with bad vaccines. I recall more than a dozen dead that resulted from the last incident.

It is facile to expect folks to believe that the kind of lab in Wuhan is just a medical research facility. It's almost certainly a biological warfare development center, and good, honest folks can but hope at this point that an accident at the lab, or worse, is not the source of the developing pandemic.

As to the utility of surveillance and enforcement in quarantining, again, you aren't wrong. However, preventing infectious disease is not why China has undertaken those efforts, and it better be the only reason any other adopters of such draconian social control undertake it. All too often corrupt and despotic governments like China claim to be doing something for good reasons when in fact they're just corrupt and despotic.

Thanks!