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by lilsoso 1095 days ago
Since your comment there has been a new update from the intelligence community:

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-...

Maybe if we shut down all discussion as a society we wouldn’t have to confront the uncomfortable.

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The new update confirms that the US intelligence community has no evidence of a lab leak.

The most prominent lab leak supporters are so upset with the lack of evidence in the new release that they are now accusing the US government of being part of the cover-up. To quote the most prominent lab leak theorist, Alina Chan:

> It's getting very difficult to believe that the government is not trying to hide what they know about #OriginOfCovid when you see a report like this that contains none of the requested info.

The other leading conspiracy theorists, like Richard Ebright, are echoing Alina Chan. So now, the conspiracy theory involves the Chinese government, the US government, and most of the world community of virologists.

All of this is based on no evidence, and each time evidence fails to materialize, the lab leak theorists argue that this just proves that more people are involved in the conspiracy.