Lab Leak Update
Why it matters exactly? - 28 million died
Chinese virus - COVID/SARS-CoV-2 was almost certainly from a lab leak
Matt Ridley @mattwridley has great summary.
A virus that has the exact same sequence inserted into the exact same location of the exact same gene into the exact type of virus as was proposed in a grant application to be done by the exact same lab at the exact same location at the epicenter of the pandemic involved in the proposal.
Keep in mind:
1. Grants often describe preliminary work that has already been done.
2. Wuhan had collected thousands of SARS viruses.
3. China had partial sequence with 100% homology to SARS-CoV-2 from years before.
4. When China first published SARS-CoV-2 sequence in 2020 they obfuscated a key portion.
5. China had actually sequenced in 2018
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/10/there-is-now-no-doubt-that-covid-leaked-from-a-lab/
https://x.com/optimistcskeptc/status/1833487920365219950?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A
https://x.com/jamiemetzl/status/1837099709913002007?s=46&t=Y4fVsDnz2q8uZ3VNKeco4A
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23993097/covid-second-briefing-redacted.pdf