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It would make sense if US officials wouldn't get money from China in various ways. Besides we also went along the "it's a natural pandemic" story until people forgot to penalise China in any way.

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.