[parkingrift]

There isn’t enough evidence to convict, so to speak, but the one place that could easily disprove the lab leak claim is the same place desperately stonewalling and destroying evidence. Acting guilty doesn’t mean your guilty, but something nefarious went on in that lab. To the point where they would rather fire bomb the entire lab than answer questions or provide documents.

>On the other hand, many people would like it to be true, because it feeds into a conspiracy narrative.

I wonder how many such people would exist if there wasn’t such a massive media and big tech push to silence anyone discussing lab leak. At peak manipulation you were labeled a racist for discussing lab leak and permanently banned from most (all?) big tech platforms.

[bamboozled]

I can't agree with this anymore. For some reason, this lab isn't allowed to be inspected and investigated thoroughly. So there is something wrong, likely, it's where COVID19 came from or else, why not just allow an investigation team in to remove all doubts.

[swalsh]

Not allowing investigation is not necessary conspiracy to cover up known evidence. It might just be an admission that there is a nonzero chance there is evidence there... and if the world finds that, there could be dire consequences if people decide China should be held liable.

[notahacker]

Doesn't even need to be that.

Glasnost is not standard policy in China and they have very strong reasons not to change that for reasons which have nothing to do with what did or didn't happen in the Wuhan lab. In the unlikely event the CCCP has complete certainty about what happened which completely exonerates the lab, they still wouldn't want to release anything other than controlled media briefings. If you start allowing international observers in every time you say something wasn't your fault, people can draw some much stronger inferences when you don't...

(Not to mention that there's little reason to believe the higher reaches of the CCCP know the answer to the question of whether there's any evidence any better than the average person. They're not virologists, and if evidence of lab malpractice exists the virologists aren't exactly incentivised to incriminate themselves by sharing it with them)

[parkingrift]

It’s not just stonewalling an investigation. It’s outright destruction of files and documents so that an investigation literally cannot happen. Wiping servers, destroying emails, shredding files, burning samples. These are things that don’t necessarily implicate you in guilt, but make you look guilty.

It’s just kind of rich for people to grandstand and say “there’s no evidence to support this theory” when the evidence that may support it has been systematically destroyed. There is enough circumstantial evidence to warrant a search, and if this lab situation had unfolded in the US the lab would have been searched.

[RyEgswuCsn]

Why would they? Would you allow your neighbours to search your home and inspect your computer as soon as they claim that you are a pedophile?

[endominus]

Probably not the comparison you want to make. If your door blew open in a strong wind one day and a bunch of CP flew out of it and around town, you probably wouldn't have a choice, no matter how convincing your story of the previous tenant being a sicko was.

[RyEgswuCsn]

If CP were to be compared to virus, then all households would have some.

New virus emerge naturally all the time, the same cannot be said for CP.

Also things can go wrong just due to bad luck. Someone's home caught fire doesn't necessary mean they are committing insurance fraud; majority of them will be genuine accidents.