State Department Cables Warned of Safety Issues at Wuhan Lab

The mad rush to shout down the Wuhan Bio Lab escape theory was always so odd to me. It was mentioned as a possibility and then there was a sudden deluge of headlines proclaiming the idea was patently ridiculous, etc.

But if you actually read the articles their reasoning was basically that coronaviruses like Covid-19 already exist in wild bat populations. One even said that the virus wasn't deadly enough to be a bioweapon, which is obviously nonsense and indicates a significant amount of grasping and/or lack of imagination.

The fact is that numerous pathogens have escaped biological research facilities in the past, including from Chinese facilities in the past 15 years.

Maybe Occam's razor tells us that the coronavirus originated from the wild, but maybe Occam's razor is on the side of the escape theory. It's not clear right now. What is clear is that there is a lot of smoke.

My understanding is that there has been literally no evidence to suggest that covid-19 is anything other than a particularly virulent and dangerous zoonotic disease, which shouldn’t be surprising given the originating environment.

This sounds very much to me like “we want to blame China for creating this”