So let me get this straight. Multiple papers published in reputable journals, as well as a number of preprints, have all but dismissed the lab escape theory as vanishingly unlikely, yet we are giving it a guernsey because the US State Dept had a thought bubble #COVID19

I personally don't put much faith in an outpouching of the banana republic which just pulled its funding from the WHO and is being ruled by a bag of Twisties, but maybe that's just me

It actually doesn't matter what a <insert collective noun> of public servants thinks about the origins of a novel pathogen when we now have evidence refuting this mass delusion. We have scientists. They do science. That is literally their job