So the whole 5 eyes report has basically been exposed as likely a fabrication at best, and they are coming up with some other nonsense now.

It’s clear FUD.

And all this does not change the fact that whether it escaped a lab or not is completely irrelevant (other than the fact that it makes the Trump admins decision to pull US researchers from the lab even worse, since if they hadn’t pulled them to save peanuts, and it did escape from a lab, the US and the world would have been aware of this in October).

There is no reason to believe Western countries, many of which did not start acting until late March although information about the CoronaVirus has existed since the beginning of the year at the latest, and Asian countries had already started acting on it in mid Jan to Feb, would have behaved any differently.