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by trafficante 1010 days ago
Largely because, as others have said, the best case scenario is that the US at least partially funded the lab’s research.

Worst case scenario, it was made in a lab but not a Chinese one. I don’t personally subscribe to this belief due to lack of any direct evidence - but in this case, it’s pretty obvious why the narrative would want to stay very far away from a lab origin story.