> The only consensus is no consensus. We may never know. Well that's refreshing. Of course, the preceding paragraph gives a lot of strong evidence for a lab l

> The only consensus is no consensus. We may never know. Well that's refreshing. Of course, the preceding paragraph gives a lot of strong evidence for a lab link. > Baseless conspiracy theories will run wild, like the American government did it on purpose... or that the Chinese government released it on their own citizens. These aren’t true. And here again we fall into the "things I don't like can't possibly be true" trap, which is just as ridiculous as the wild-eye'd absolutist conspiracy theory position. Consider: There were military games in Wuhan just before the outbreak.[1] Apparently intelligence knew about the coronavirus as early as November[2]. Iran's senior leadership was hit very hard by the virus[3]. Do these facts prove that the virus was intentionally released? Of course not. But we have to at least consider the possibility. If it was intentionally released, does that mean the US or China did it? Of course not. It could have been a rogue group within either of those two countries, another country entirely (trying to stir up tensions?), or a non-governmental group. As the author noted previously: we may never know. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games [2] - https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-c... [3] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-irans-leaders-contract-coronavirus-doubts-emerge-over-national-tally-11582903223 https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-irans-leaders-contract-coron...