Whether purposeful will probably never be provable. Nor (definitively) whether it came from a Wuhan lab. However, the alleged and confirmed behavior of the Chinese ca. December 2019-Jan. 2020 alone lends strong circumstantial evidence to a lab accident. The FOIA-ed emails obtained from the NIH chronicle (ca. Feb. 20202) that Fauci, Colli…
Whether purposeful will probably never be provable. Nor (definitively) whether it came from a Wuhan lab. However, the alleged and confirmed behavior of the Chinese ca. December 2019-Jan. 2020 alone lends strong circumstantial evidence to a lab accident. The FOIA-ed emails obtained from the NIH chronicle (ca. Feb. 20202) that Fauci, Collins et al. were notified of the chance of the virus not being natural, and then hastily convening a meeting and basically bullying everyone into maintaining silent on the issue; threatening scientists with loss of funding is a pretty credible threat coming from a man who largely controls all the funding in the nation. The Lancet opinion piece decrying any claim of a lab origin as some awful "conspiracy theory" can be thought of as being the propaganda cherry on this mound of cover-their-ass bullshit. Fauci & Co. actions are precisely as one would expect guilty parties to behave, thus lending a second, completely independent confirmation of the lab leak conjecture being the most probable explanation.
Bloggers like Ron Unz would have us believe it was a rogue bio-warfare attack by the US upon China. While it's of course possible, it is an unnecessarily complicated explanation. He claims the alleged lab leak is just a cover story. Believe what you wish, but I've offered two very strong circumstantial proofs that the virus came from a lab.
Whether purposeful will probably never be provable. Nor (definitively) whether it came from a Wuhan lab. However, the alleged and confirmed behavior of the Chinese ca. December 2019-Jan. 2020 alone lends strong circumstantial evidence to a lab accident. The FOIA-ed emails obtained from the NIH chronicle (ca. Feb. 20202) that Fauci, Collins et al. were notified of the chance of the virus not being natural, and then hastily convening a meeting and basically bullying everyone into maintaining silent on the issue; threatening scientists with loss of funding is a pretty credible threat coming from a man who largely controls all the funding in the nation. The Lancet opinion piece decrying any claim of a lab origin as some awful "conspiracy theory" can be thought of as being the propaganda cherry on this mound of cover-their-ass bullshit. Fauci & Co. actions are precisely as one would expect guilty parties to behave, thus lending a second, completely independent confirmation of the lab leak conjecture being the most probable explanation.
Bloggers like Ron Unz would have us believe it was a rogue bio-warfare attack by the US upon China. While it's of course possible, it is an unnecessarily complicated explanation. He claims the alleged lab leak is just a cover story. Believe what you wish, but I've offered two very strong circumstantial proofs that the virus came from a lab.