Is it just me or is that lab leak cover story one big “haha what if...unless?”

Okay so when NY Mag announced their latest cover story, which is illustrated with a very spooky-looking vial spilling mysterious neon thingamajigs under the ominous headline The Lab Leak Hypothesis earlier this week, my first thought was hmm, I thought that was mostly not a thing? in that I knew it existed as a conservative conspiracy theory from the ea…