Also back then every other post wasn't full of political echo chamber warfare like your jab about russian propaganda you just couldn't resist throwing in.
The Iraq war had a decent amount of opposition before it happened, there were like 100K people in San Francisco for the protest I went to.
there's evidence to suggest that there were two separate events from different strains at the start of the pandemic
this doesn't disprove the lab leak theory, but then they would have to be studying two separate very related strains and it would be strange if they just kept leaking different strains
You could, of course, take it as proof that the lab leak happened at around the same time as lineage B, while lineage A is from bats