The recent article on medium by Don McNeil Jr came out, and seems to have broken the taboo around talking about this. I suspect that there is something out ther

The recent article on medium by Don McNeil Jr came out, and seems to have broken the taboo around talking about this. I suspect that there is something out there not yet reported. But at the face of it, it all breaks down to something simple - if a evolved smallpox virus emerged in Atlanta, is there anyone on the face of the planet that wouldn't believe it is a lab leak? Lab leaks have a documented history of occurring, at least where that documentation is allowed to exist in the first place. Lab leaks have occurred where that documentation isn't allowed to exist (see USSR) Yes, we have a coronavirus that appears to have emerged from the same city as the only BSL-4 in china, which also happens to be home of Shi Zhengli, who happens to have discovered the virus most related to SARS-COV2. Said lab was also doing "gain of function" research which was previously flagged as being dangerous on coronaviruses. The only reason, at this point, that people are not assuming by default that this is a a lab leak, is because of the racism that some idiots engage in, Trump's actions (aforementioned idiot) and that the Chinese desperation to blame anyone but them. The thing here is that China has spent so denying any access to WIV and than making insanely outlandish claims that they are now in a no-win situation. their stance required everyone to say "it's never creditable". Now that some say it is creditable, they either have to completely open their institutions and promote transparency (cancer for any authoritarian state) or keep access closed, and have this become if not the authoritative narrative, at least a dominate narrative.