Every now and then someone comes along and says: "there's no evidence the virus was engineered in a lab". But what would the evidence look like?
For example, is it possible to replicate a zoonotic crossover in a lab so that both hypothesis (zoonotic and lab leak) are equally probable?
> The simplest scenario is that this viral pandemic is like every other one in known history - including the last coronavirus pandemic - a zoonotic crossover.
Do you however give a positive probability to a lab leak? In what range does the probability lie according to most biologist? Is it more 20%, 2% or 0.2% that the lab leak is the correct hypothesis?
Put a lot of immune compromised animals together with humans, and nature will find a way
And then take fact that there is essentially 4 characters with million pairs to read surely some random data will collide.
Sounds to me like most realistic and simplest explanation knowing the sides involved.
It sounds more like Fauci wanted to do Gain of Function research and needed partners who wouldn't complain about small details like the law. His partners turned out to be careless enough to release the virus and here we are.