The Covid lab-leak hypothesis: what scientists do and don’t know

I'm pretty interested in this timeline. China informed the WHO of pneumonia of unknown causes in December 31st, 2019 [1]. COVID-19 was detected in collected sewage samples in Italy as early as December 18th, 2019. [2]

With modern travel one can transport themselves from Wuhan to Milan in about a day. Whether or not it escaped from a lab or was borne of the wet-market, it feels as if it emerged well before December of 2019. Knowing the origin, and when it happened, can greatly help us understand how quickly things can spread, globally, from patient zero.

1. https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies...

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428442/

> Researchers note that a coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan isn’t surprising, because it’s a city of 11 million people in a broader region where coronaviruses have been found.

This reads to me like willfully neglecting Occam's razor.