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by koningrobot 947 days ago
I think you're not aware of all the available evidence. The lab leak theory does not implicate China so much as it implicates particular people in the US who intentionally moved the research to China to evade the US' ban on gain-of-function research. These same people then got to be the experts with the authority to craft the official narrative on the subject.

The most important pieces of evidence (imho) are

  - No evidence for zoonotic origin has been uncovered, *and it's not for lack of trying*.
  - Peter Daszak applied for funding with DARPA to take a bat coronavirus and insert the furin cleavage site; his proposal was rejected.
  - The cover-up started with the "proximal origins" paper: a *peer-reviewed* paper in a *respectable journal* establishing zoonotic origin with certainty in the public eye. The Fauci emails show that the authors were far from certain, and several were leaning the other way.
US Right to Know does good journalism on this and other subjects: https://usrtk.org/category/covid-19-origins
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I simply do not get my "evidence" from known conspiracy theorists or sites known to be funded by them. If you really want to go to these bubbles, you might as well find sources claiming evidence for the exact opposite. But as of today there exists no credible, vetted evidence to support either side.