You're way off the mark. Indeed you do have need to use another term. It's not a good idea to get amnesia, because other threads are morphing: "Don't Forget, China Never Deployed mRNA "Vaccines" ."They may not truly be vaccines, but they are commonly called by that name, and I have no need to use another term.
Even if you assume that COVID came from a lab, that doesn't mean that most had a good understanding of it when it first became prevalent. Unless you are trying to say that it was not only lab-created, but that the lab work was openly available to anyone who wanted to see it.
My point was simply that having more deaths when the pandemic first began was to be expected. That is likely to be true with any new disease (or disease variant).
A knowledgeable esoteric group trumps all those who did not know. Should this former group continue on with impunity when dead people can't question or have a say in it?