> why is this one special? There was very clearly something exceptional about it, since we shut down much of the world for a year. > Absent of other informati

> why is this one special? There was very clearly something exceptional about it, since we shut down much of the world for a year. > Absent of other information, why is this the most probably explanation? Again, the simple fact that the most severe viral outbreak in decades originated near a research facility for that same kind of virus, was reason enough to push lab-leak to the top of valid theories.