Was he thinking like a scientist or like a political leftist. I’d say the latter. This is why I don’t necessarily believe any thing that comes out of a “scientists” mouth. For the record, I thought if this thing were going to kill millions it would have piled up corpses a lot faster than it seemed to be doing.
Think of the virus as an inferior Chinese product... lots of great intention and BS - not much compared to American, Russian or German bio-weapons... and yeah, he was thinking like a lefty...