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For this to mean anything then it would have to be specific enough that it could lead to policy changes at the institute in question (and possibly others). Othe

For this to mean anything then it would have to be specific enough that it could lead to policy changes at the institute in question (and possibly others). Otherwise it makes no difference. We know it came from bats. It might of spent time in a building somewhere. It may or may not of escaped from that building. Either way we still would of ended up with a pandemic. It wasn't going to magically stay in bats after it mutated to a form transmissible to humans. They were Chinese bats. So if we want to hate China for this we still can. Hatred doesn't have to make logical sense.

Exmoor 5y ago
We know the labs were specifically trying to enhance the viruses ability to infect humans ("gain of function"). Regardless of whether or not SARS-COV-2 leaked from a lab, I think the world has seen enough to know that trying to engineer viruses to be more easily transmitted is a huge mistake and should be permanently banned.
- upofadown 5y ago
  >We know the labs were specifically trying to enhance the viruses ability to infect humans ("gain of function"). I was not able to find a reference for that on a quick search. There is a recent paper about gain of function but there doesn't seem to be any reason to suspect that gain was artificially induced.