> I don't understand why the public wants to believe in the fantasy that this was deliberate action This is gross oversimplification. The fact that some scient

> I don't understand why the public wants to believe in the fantasy that this was deliberate action This is gross oversimplification. The fact that some scientists may know doesn't imply that the only possibility is deliberate action. Since there have been a lot of money poured on Coronaviruses research in the last decade, it's reasonable that, (important!) even not assuming a lab leak (/important!), scientists working on it, don't want to disclose it. Even those who didn't work on it are disincentived to talk about it, as their reputation is on the line (in particular, because of the misguided opinion that lab leak equals bioengineerd virus). A few co-subscribers of the Lancet letter changed their mind on the topic. It doesn't surprise me that they did it only recently - precisely because their position is now less endangered. > This pandemic was predicted for many years by scientist It's hard to extract any value from this, especially without a very serious analysis, because at any point in time, there will be people predicting that events of any kind will happen.