> I also understand why it wasn't a media fixation during the pandemic itself. You list some reasons, and I have in my mind a different reason. There was a me

> I also understand why it wasn't a media fixation during the pandemic itself. You list some reasons, and I have in my mind a different reason. There was a media blackout on the lab leak hypothesis because China put the kibosh on it, and since the US is dependent on Chinese exports for healthcare, PPE, defense and other critical supply lines, we did not want to piss them off. Direction to the media for this blackout came from the US State Dept, and Mike Pompeo confirmed as much in semi-public comments that I will link if I ever find them again. edit: this isn't the source I was thinking of, and it fingers the IC not State. I will keep looking https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pompeo-intel-officials-wuhan-lab-leak-cover-1597494 https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pompeo-intel-officials-wuhan-l...