I'm not generally opposed to virology research - I do think that it's totally reasonable a lab leak could have lead to this. Coronaviruses (SARS specifically)

I'm not generally opposed to virology research - I do think that it's totally reasonable a lab leak could have lead to this. Coronaviruses (SARS specifically) have leaked from Chinese labs twice in the last 20 years. These aren't really even controversial incidents, the PRC admitted it. [2] Lab leaks of pathogens aren't really that uncommon, to the extent Wikipedia has a huge list including labs from all over the world. [1] tl;dr: viruses escape from labs, so it was never a far-fetched scenario. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/