I had to shorten my comments because the website limited the number of characters that I could use. Well, maybe brevity is better...
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It is possible that the COVID-19 virus came from a lab leak. Reportedly, it is less likely that it came from Gain of Function research, but on both points we don't have enough evidence. We are in the dark.
Much speculation has been made about a relatively small U.S. grant to the Wuhan lab to catalogue bat viruses that had nothing to do with Gain of Function Research. However, we have no evidence about what the Chinese researchers may have otherwise been up to.
Parts of the article are factual, but it is constantly engaging in emotionally tinged conspiratorial language. These are speculations and I do not accept them as fact until we have more evidence. What is described as a coverup may have only been scientists defending what they thought was correct. Some of this was very likely CYA because scientists didn't want their research grants denied because of false claims.
Maybe the full truth will eventually come out or maybe it won't. I see at least three possibilities...
1. The virus came from a natural source, either mutating before or after it infected humans.
2. Since the Wuhan lab was cataloguing natural viruses, with the intent of finding ones dangerous to humans, the lab leak theory is plausible. I heard a report of researchers getting sick after collecting bat viruses from a remote cave.
3. The Wuhan lab was working on Gain of Function Research that leaked. One of the lab's scientists was quoted as feeling relieved that COVID-19 was not related to her research viruses.*
* However, we have no way of knowing if this claim is true.
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