The article you linked was extremely short on details and mechanisms In the paper that the article links about mutations in an HIV patient (https://www.medrxiv

The article you linked was extremely short on details and mechanisms In the paper that the article links about mutations in an HIV patient (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.03.21258228v1.full-text https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.03.21258228v...) There is a figure 1 and the left side (A) which shows a maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree. If you examine this tree, you can see that the highlighted piece is based off a recent (to the HIV patient's case) variant. On the other hand, the linked article (https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20 https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20) has a tweet by Jonatan Pallesen showing a tree for Omicron. This tree shows that Omicron is based off of a variant from a surpringly long time ago. This alone is bizarre. That combined with the lack of silent mutations is extremely suspicious. I'm not saying this is concrete evidence or anything, but its very strange and doesn't appear to line up with a natural course of evolution