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by natch 1334 days ago
You seem to think a natural origin virus can't be A) examined in a lab, and leaked; B) cultured in a lab, and leaked; C) tweaked in a lab, and leaked.

All three of these are possible. And all are compatible with your Occam's razor (and mine).

My bet is with option C.

Lab leak of a natural-origin, but tweaked, virus.

Yes, it can be both natural origin and tweaked. When you tweak something, you have to start with a something, and that something can have a natural origin.

The evidence against the lab leak appears cooked up based on data provided by interested authorities in China, and was assembled and presented by compromised people (people in the field with an active interest in protecting their own field) who actively promoted the false claim that they had no conflict of interest.