I am less confident that's for sure. But at the same time, I struggle with the fact that Covid-19 broke out in Wuhan, where just by chance there happens to be a major lab that was, you guessed it, conducting virology research. Doesn't that raise some doubts in you? There is so much disinformation out there, it is hard to know what is true and it seems scientists have become more and more politically influenced than has been the historical norm. There was a sham investigation at the outset and any suggestion that it was a lab leak was taboo.
"An ongoing controversy over what constitutes virology research that is too dangerous to conduct—and whether the U.S government funded studies in China that violated a policy barring funding for such risky research—has taken a new turn. While denying once again it had helped create the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealed in a letter sent yesterday to Republicans in Congress that experiments it funded through a U.S.-based nonprofit in 2018 and 2019 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China had the “unexpected result” of creating a coronavirus that was more infectious in mice."
https://www.science.org/content/art...ment-wuhan-created-bat-virus-made-mice-sicker
Critics of NIH who claim the agency has lied about the work it funded at WIV pounced on the letter. Rutgers University, Piscataway, microbiologist Richard Ebright, a prominent critic of GOF research, commented in a tweet: “NIH corrects untruthful assertions by NIH Director [Francis] Collins and NIAID [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] Director [Anthony] Fauci that NIH had not funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan.”
