CarbShark
Critical Thinker
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I will just repeat something I have said a few times already. It's not conspiratorial per se to think that the virus began in a lab, and it is possible that some kind of lab incident did cause the pandemic. Because of this, I think it is too strong to state categorically that the pandemic began in nature.
That said, and again, to repeat, much of the arguments for a lab leak are either conspiracy theories, or unparsimonious, or both, with many of the conspiracy theories quickly relying on an ever-expanding cover-up across multiple entities in different countries, often relying on evidence that support different proposed routes for the pandemic to start, or even contradictory evidence. The lab leak theorists often appear to be agnostic or not even concerned how the virus leaked from a lab, or which lab it was supposed to have leaked from, whether any tampering of the virus occurred, whether the Chinese military were involved, whether it was simply caught in the wild and escaped as it was, or whether it was made more virulent, or more transmissable through serial passaging etc... the emails seem to be read as either confessions, or claims that they knew, but with the presumption that what they really thought was discussed outside of these Slack channels, emails etc...
I suggest listening to the TWIV episode linked to above.
Basically, if it were a virus created or modified in the lab, there would evidence in the virus itself. If it were a leak, then there would be evidence in the way the virus first spread. Instead, the evidence supports the Wuhan market as the origin, not a lab.