By the same standards, you would have to include the commonly dismissed military sports festival hypothesis: geographical and temporal vicinity, some symptoms o

By the same standards, you would have to include the commonly dismissed military sports festival hypothesis: geographical and temporal vicinity, some symptoms of cold — you find as much in this as in the lab leak theory. There is no sense in picking a favorite hypothesis, besides maybe politics. As long as there is no evidence to the contrary, we'll have to treat it as a case of force majeure. Even, if it may offend our (quite illusionary) sense of total control over nature.