[jopsen]

> it seems obvious from the behavior of China's government that they know it is a lab leak.

I don't think anyone in China knows what happened.

It seems entirely likely that it was covered up at multiple levels until it couldn't be. And that each level won't know about the other cover ups.

I think it's entirely possible that the system in China doesn't have the capacity to know.

Similarly, they probably covered up the death toll by not counting. So it's entirely likely that the Chinese government doesn't know the true number.

> Yet the Chinese government claimed that their lockdowns did work.

Why would the be a correlation between what the "Chinese government says" and reality.