GP is totally right to point to you that it hasn't been proven it wasn't a lab leak either. Your burden of proof would make some sense if, of all the places in

GP is totally right to point to you that it hasn't been proven it wasn't a lab leak either. Your burden of proof would make some sense if, of all the places in the world, the outbreak didn't happen near a "leading" lab in GoF research on bat viruses. I mean: if people were to die due to irradiation near some uranium-enrichment facility but there was no proof that any radioactive material leaked, the reasonable stance would still be that some fuck up happened in that uranium-enrichment facility. People would have to proof it was a lab-leak if the outbreak happened in some city where there weren't any research done on viruses. But as it is an undisputable fact that the biggest pandemic in modern history happened due to a virus outbreak beginning in a place exceptionally close to a lab doing research on similar viruses, the burden of proof is on those claiming it's not a lab leak. Moreover it's a known fact communism uses propaganda as one of its most powerful tool so nothing coming out of chinese officials can be trusted. You want to point out it wasn't proven it was a lab leak, which is true. But people can point out it wasn't proven it wasn't a lab leak either. And that is totally on-topic.