I didn’t mean to sound like I was calling anyone out. The conversation evolved naturally, but it turned into one that has a better fit where we were already discussing the same topic (evidence or lack thereof about the origins of the virus). So I just cast a wide net and heaved all the posts into that thread and briefly explained why it was a better fit there.
As for getting political, I don’t want people to have to walk on eggshells. Short of restricting the conversation to scientific data (there’s a thread for that, which I see now is in P&R for some reason), the pandemic is partly a political discussion given that various government responses have been integral to its spread and containment. Also, the politics and religion subforum doesn’t exist to keep politics and religion out of other discussions. It exists to help organize the discussions.
-Tom