2yrs ago, US diplomats warned about safety problems at the Wuhan virology lab and said lab’s work on bat coronaviruses could become a new SARs pandemic.

A month ago, @SenTomCotton left door open to this scenario. He was lampooned in the media for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/

Maybe my favorite.

"The claim is that the coronavirus began in a Chinese laboratory. We rate this claim FALSE, based on our research." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/03/21/fact-check-did-coronavirus-originate-chinese-laboratory/2881150001/

Let this be yet another moment for journalism to take a hard look inward and ask why trust in media has evaporated.

For merely suggesting the *possibility* of lab origin, barrels of ink was spilled discrediting it. From people in absolutely no position to make such judgments.

+last thought. We still have no idea where this thing came from except the Hubei province. But there has yet to be a single legitimate reason floated to not investigate all possibilities.

Reporters do not serve the public good by trying to shut down reasonable questions.

(and just leaving this here) https://twitter.com/RobbieGibb/status/1249925983907598338?s=20

Presidents don't cut or increase budgets, Congress does.

Pandemic Response was moved to the WMD/Arms Control Portfolio at NSC. DHS head resigned, wasn't a scientist, and wasn't fired.

A 3rd option here is that you may need to read a little more closely. https://twitter.com/needleplyer/status/1250108827535540224?s=20