I am less confident than you in the lab leak hypothesis, but am even less confident that this development will shake confidence in the medical establishment. People rarely care much when experts get things wrong.
Experts just getting it wrong and experts first getting it right in private, discovering that they failed to put related research through the official safety review and then telling everybody the wrong thing and organizing for the censorship of the right thing all in the span of 3-4 days are very different things as far as public trust is concerned.
Funding research in violation of a government ban and then that research resulting in a global pandemic is different then just getting a factual call whether something is true or not wrong.
Experts just getting it wrong and experts first getting it right in private, discovering that they failed to put related research through the official safety review and then telling everybody the wrong thing and organizing for the censorship of the right thing all in the span of 3-4 days are very different things as far as public trust is concerned.
Funding research in violation of a government ban and then that research resulting in a global pandemic is different then just getting a factual call whether something is true or not wrong.