This rubbish theory only gets pushed so that Trump supporters can (continue to) believe that Trump was unfairly maligned: "lab leak" == "Trump couldn't have done anything anyway".
> This rubbish theory only gets pushed so that Trump supporters can (continue to) believe that Trump was unfairly maligned
As a non-American who is passionately anti-Trump, and also as someone who at the outset strongly believed the 'establishment' narrative of a zoonotic leap from captive animals in a food-market, I have to say I'm mind-blown by this response, which hadn't occurred to me at all, and which isn't obvious to people living outside the United States.
This extreme politicization of the issue certainly helps to explain something that's completely mystified me: which is why the ever-increasing detailed and thorough documentation of the purely scientific evidence favoring the lab-leak scenario just doesn't get any coverage in the generally left-wing papers I tend to read, needing to follow links to The Telegraph or The Daily Mail (sites I never otherwise visit).
In any case, following an interest in the purely scientific aspects of the origins of covid, and reading scientific papers over the last couple years, and the articles that make them more accessible to a general public (I'm not an epidemiologist), I'm now completely convinced that a run-of-the-mill lab escape is by far the most likely explanation.
Thanks for helping to clarify why we may never know for sure.
