Re: Presenting the lab leak as fact
Is still misinformation. Saying "no one has been able to prove the lab leak theory is false" is true, but likely no one will ever be able to prove exact origin of it anymore than we can prove the exact origin of AIDS or the 1918 flu pandemic.
Yes, except the animal host of the SARS1 outbreak in 2002 was traced and that was at a time when our detection and sequencing protocols were relatively primitive in comparison to today. No equivalent intermediate species has ever been identified for the current pandemic.
The reason the lab leak hypothesis should've been a strong contender from the start are as follows:
1) The Wuhan Institute of Virology studied bat coronaviruses and gain of function research and was only a few miles from the initial epicentre of cases.
2) The French team who helped set up the lab and train staff had concerns regarding the safety protocols employed by the Chinese.
3) The Chinese have withheld data from the start of the pandemic and hampered the WHO's investigation.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
