[TacticalCoder]

> - and what a fantastic new path for pathogen transmission.

on the bright side and if history is of any help, as long as future-to-be-debarred "experts" aren't doing gain-of-function research on bat viruses while lying about it, we don't have much to fear.

Official US Congress report, mandated under Biden and whose results came under Biden, says the virus has "characteristic not found in nature" and that a lab-leak is the most likely source:

https://oversight.house.gov/release/final-report-covid-selec...

And Peter Daszak has been debarred, defunded and prevented from ever receiving funding from the US again.

I'm more worried about humans lying and humans siding with lying humans to then lie some more, worldwide, to the public --for years before the truth finally came up to light-- much more than I'm about rats attacking bats.

[chairmansteve]

>on the bright side

I wouldn't be so confident. HIV and Ebola came from the wild. Bird Flu also has the potential to be really bad.

[rootusrootus]

> mandated under Biden and whose results came under Biden

You missed the part where the original mandate was along party lines with Democrats supporting it and Republicans not, to investigate how the Trump administration handled the pandemic response. Republicans took control of the House and then redefined the agenda to be their own partisan viewpoint, to confirm what they already believed about gain-of-function and lab leak theories. They produced a nice Big Beautiful Report with a debatable connection to facts, which is not surprising in the least.

> before the truth finally came up to light

If you are looking to politicians for the truth...