Absolutely shocking that that's the one post you reply to.
Posting this again because all the experts here didn't answer:
If it turns out that this thing was leaked from a lab, what next? Republicans want to push this narrative hard. I'm just wondering what happens if it turns out to be true. Does the US have authority to regulate Chinese labs? Will confirmation of this theory justify racism towards Chinese people? Would republicans want to start a military conflict with China? Will maga products stop being produced in China? Do republicans want to limit people entering the country from China as if that would have any impact on the spread of a future virus? What's the goal here?
Its not like any of these agencies can locate patient zero. The odds of them ever finding out where it started with definitive proof is microscopic at best. The Chinese government isn't going to be forthcoming with their findings either.
But the answers have to be on 4chan, facebook, twitter, or the dark web. We should really be listening to the experts on this forum when they tell us what happened. Those recent reports are definitive PROOF that they were right all along.
Now that we have answers, we can take swift action!
I think the only definitive answer we're likely to get is if we find it in an animal reservoir that we can show through it's genome is an original or very early variant. That feels like a pretty unlikely scenario at this point, though, given how long it's had to circulate and mutate in the wild among animals, too.
You seem to be mistaking lying for it being early on in the pandemic and no one knowing what the cause was and quite frankly not concerned with it given that finding the cause does no good if everyone dies of the disease. You can be like the dude in the Twilight Zone episode who just wants to read his books but no one will leave him alone. Only once he finds out everyone else is dead and finally has time to sit down and read his books...only for his glasses to break.