Let's pretend that these fantasy workers had COVID.Trump, Modi, Bolsonaro and Tsai combined did not cover up the origin of a virus that has caused the whole world to crash. Chinese people are about to become the Jews of the world, thanks to Xi Jinping if he did indeed cover this up. They should have just admitted it from the beginning and then said you shouldn't politicize it. It would have been tough to deal with but they would have had the moral high ground. But by being dishonest they have lost themselves. IF that is what happened.
Like I said, it's perfectly plausible that three workers would have sought treatment at a hospital possibly for some mild flu. The WSJ phrasing is critical here. They said "sought hospital care" and not "was put in the emergency room on a ventilator." A big difference there. IF it wasn't a lab leak, then the US will have big egg on their faces for pushing this theory.
Your office now has three employees INFECTED WITH COVID running around. What happens next?
Well, it's obvious. In a couple of weeks, you will have thirty employees infected with COVID.
By the end of December, the laboratory will have three hundred employees infected with COVID. By the time the lockdown occurs, the entire laboratory will be infected, dozens will be hospitalized, and a fair number will be dead.