David Strom:
Anybody with access to the data, or for that matter even the smallest quantity of common sense, at least strongly suspected that the virus escaped from the lab. The evidence was overwhelming, and all the attempts to debunk the lab leak theory were ridiculous.
Raccoon dogs? Bats from a wet market? The raccoon dog theory was based on finding a fragment of the virus at the wet market near the raccoon dogs pens, but then again Wuhan was filled with people who HAD COVID while buying products at the market, so that tells you precisely nothing. The bat theory seems superficially plausible, until you realize that the only bats carrying a virus remotely similar were from hundreds of miles away, and those were collected and brought to...the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
I wrote last week about the leak from German Intelligence, which told Angela Merkel early in 2020 that the virus came from the lab, and now the same information is coming from the UK.
# posted by Ranger @ 8:59 PM
