> Ask yourself - if you were the CN government, with all of the information you're withholding from scientists, researchers, NGOs, etc. If you truly believe it

> Ask yourself - if you were the CN government, with all of the information you're withholding from scientists, researchers, NGOs, etc. If you truly believe it was a zoonotic origin wouldn't you do everything possible to exonerate yourself? That presumes that leaders in China know the origin. Why would you presume that? If it were a lab fuckup, people will be executed. In that case, you can be damn sure people are going to work VERY hard to bury this. Priority number one in that case would be to prevent anybody competent (especially from the West) from getting anywhere near things. If it were zoontic, people still might be executed. Scapegoats are needed for Comrade Pooh. Personal survival probably depends upon keeping any such investigations ongoing and inconclusive. There is NO situation where the truth helps the people involved on the ground in China. And it's not clear that truth helps anyone in the entire political chain in China.