Good article.

The issue of the virus’s origin has been horrendously politicized, by both the right and the left. The Chinese government and U.S. scientists who are close associates of the Wuhan scientists doing bat coronavirus research have tarred anyone who uttered it as conspiracy theorists, or worse (in their eyes), as pro-Trump.

And although it’s true the Trump administration contributed to this politicization, it’s also true that the Biden administration has confirmed some of the Trump team’s factual claims about suspicious and still-undisclosed work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which amounts to a direct challenge to the lab’s claim that it has been transparent and honest.

Further challenging the official narrative, Redfield told CNN in an interview released last week that he believes the outbreak likely did originate from research in the Wuhan labs, based on how the virus acts. But though he is a trained virologist who saw the underlying intelligence, he was accused of spreading speculation and even fueling hate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-if-the-former-cdc-director-is-right...

From the WHO  thread -

"The WHO report also concludes that it’s highly unlikely that the coronavirus escaped from a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Most scientists say that evidence overwhelmingly favours SARS-CoV-2 having spilled over from animals into humans, but a few have backed the idea that the virus was intentionally or accidentally leaked from a lab."

"Nevertheless, the findings are likely to be contested by some. A small group of scientists have sent letters to the media saying that they wouldn’t trust the outcome of the investigation because it was closely overseen by China’s government."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00865-8

lee wrote on Apr 5^th, 2021 at 9:57pm:


WHO did not investigate lab leak as a possible origin for the kung flu.

When they did gain of function research on H5N1 virus they changed it to allow airborne transmission by running it through around 10 generations of ferrets in a lab. There was no gene editing or creating needed by the lab. This method of running it through generations of ferrets fits the model most scientists agree on with spilling over from animals to humans and it was done in a lab. Our CSIRO were using ferrets to study this kung flu as they share the same ACE2 receptor as humans.

Many scientists were outraged over this it led to a ban on gain of function research in the US.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gain+of+function+research+ban&va=b&t=hc&ia=web

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They made the H5N1 bird flu virus to be far more dangerous by speeding up the evolutionary process in generations of ferrets which shows they can do this with a virus without creating a new virus from scratch or using a gene jockey to figure it out that virus also fit the model of natural evolution with virus despite it being  created in a lab.

There is zero zip zilch evidence to support wet market origin for the kung flu.

There is a lot of evidence showing they have had the ability to create this kung flu for over 10 years

I have got an article that is more balanced. 

https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/story-aussie-doctor-whos-covid19-mission-china

AD: Was the team satisfied that SARS-CoV-2 didn’t escape from a Chinese lab? That still seems to be a widespread, and potentially explosive, suspicion.

Professor Dwyer: A range of hypotheses related to the origins of this virus have been raised and discussed, and to work these up you have to try and rank them as to their likelihood and look at the evidence to justify that ranking.

With the laboratory escape theory, there are a couple of issues.

One is that laboratory escape has occurred in a number of countries around the world, in China, Singapore, Russia, the US and the UK. Fortunately, it's fairly rare.

Generally, these occur in the context of the virus being grown in a culture in the lab, often in quite high amounts.

Unless you're growing the virus or doing experiments with a cultured virus, you tend not to have leaks.

We visited the main lab that people have been talking about — the Wuhan Institute of Virology — which is a very well-known and very good laboratory that does a lot of work with samples from bats and other animals.

We toured the lab — it was just a tour, of course — and saw the high-level biosecurity protocols.

It all looked perfectly fine.

We looked at the sort of work had they done with their staff health.

People who work in these biosecurity labs often will have blood collected each year and stored, and a physical examination takes place to make sure that everything's going OK.

They had tested all the blood collected for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and didn’t find anything.

We also talked with the researchers doing the bat virus research at the lab.

There's one virus of people had been talking about a lot called RaTG13, which is a bat coronavirus that was detected in a cave in southern China. This is the one that is most closely related to SARS-CoV-2.

The point is they have a sequence of the virus, but they haven’t actually been able to culture the virus in the lab.

And even though the two are closely related, RaTG13 still too different to be the parent virus.


With this information in mind, we discussed this fully within the WHO team.

We felt that although we could never completely discount the viral lab escape hypothesis, we rated it as being extremely unlikely.

That doesn't mean that it's been completely discounted, we just rated other hypotheses as more likely to warrant further investigation.

Robert Redford should have stuck with Paul Newman.

It would have been ok.

Of course it did.
Patient zero aka Huan Yanling (spelling) has never been seen since.

They even erased all of her ID.... as if she never existed.
China are good at that.