" But it turns out that this wasnt the case because the grant application was denied. " They are basing that on the rejection of the research by DARPA, which o

" But it turns out that this wasnt the case because the grant application was denied. " They are basing that on the rejection of the research by DARPA, which of course they didn't tell us about to begin with until it got leaked by a whistleblower. First, it's a major lie of omission that they didn't mention that they proposed doing research to make the virus in a laboratory in the city they say the virus naturally arose in. Second, they were shopping the research to multiple agencies for funding. Third, they may have already done the research in anticipation that they were going to be funded; this is apparently a common practice in biological research. We can't tell, because their records were taken offline a couple months or so before the pandemic started. I'd like to recommend, for background information on this, Matt Ridley and Alina Chan's _Viral_.