My problem, at this point, is that we've had two years to point fingers and to fabricate evidence. If it were a lab leak, that's a lot of time to bake evidence

My problem, at this point, is that we've had two years to point fingers and to fabricate evidence. If it were a lab leak, that's a lot of time to bake evidence redirecting people away. All I know is that the powers that be in China wants us to believe that it originated at this market. That's as consistent with it originating at the market, as a lab leak, as something else (including China having no idea where it came from). Science and politics don't mix, and if there's anything COVID19 has shown us, it's that science takes a back seat to politics. I have no idea where COVID19 came from. I don't know that I'll ever know. I've been in middling high positions before. There are a lot of conspiracies. I'd never trust a "reanalysis of samples" years after the fact, unless I had a clear, verifiable audit trail on how those samples were handled. However, conspiracy theories rarely line up with actual conspiracies. What I wrote isn't supporting evidence for a lab leak or anything else specific. Just that this isn't the smoking gun evidence it's presented to be. I mostly only care if it tells us something about the virus. If it were a bioweapon designed to cripple, for example, it would paint long COVID in a very different light. If it were a trial of a bioweapon to see if China can contain it, it would paint zero COVID in China in a different light. If it's just a blame game, I don't really care at this point.