I don't trust this article at all . > Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus. > It is unclear who in the U.S. government had access to the intelligence about the sick WIV workers, how long they had it, and why it was not shared with the pub…
If it were a lab leak, there are probably a handful of eyewitnesses.
Any information (not leak; was leak) would have serious ramifications to the political systems of the two largest economies in the world (the US and China).
What are the chances that we'll ever hear the true story?
Which isn't a suggestion that "They're covering {specific thing} up." It's a suggestion that we will never hear evidence of any of the possible outcomes.
And beyond that, what would "the truth" in this case change?
>> Said Metzl, “Had US government officials including Dr. Fauci stated from day one that a COVID-19 research-related origin was a very real possibility, and made clear that we had little idea what viruses were being held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, what work was being done there, and who was doing that work, our national and global conversations would have been dramatically different. The time has come for a full accounting.”
Yes, the national and global conversations would have been substantially worse and less effective.
Once the cat's out of the bag with a global pandemic, any breath blaming its origin is wasted.
Can you imagine how many scarce resources would have been mispent if SARS-CoV-2 had begun with worldwide knowledge that China was responsible?
