Lab Leaks and Lies

China has about 44,000 wet markets. 400 of them are in the city of Wuhan. The entire country of China has one virology lab. In November 2019 this lab was working on coronavirus, both trying to create it and studying transmission. This work is called gain of function research. In November 2019 three employees of the lab were hospitalized with flu-like symptoms consistent with COVID-19. In December 2019 the World Health Organization says several employees of a wet market in Wuhan were hospitalized with COVID-19. I mention the WHO because they were complicit with China in hiding the data. The only other outbreak of a coronavirus (SARS) was attributed to a wet market, a couple of years before. 44,000 wet markets and one prior outbreak. Given this set of facts, what is the probability that COVID-19 originated in the wet market? My guess would be about one in a million. If there were a betting line, it would be at least 5000 to one that the virus was the result of a lab leak. Any person with a hint of common sense would agree. In June 2014 Dr. Anthony Fauci was among a group of NIH employees that approved a $3.7 million grant for Eco Health Alliance with the understanding that $600,000 of it would go to the Wuhan lab for gain of function research. In November 2014 the Obama administration banned gain of function research however, the Wuhan lab had already been funded. In June 2019 the ban on game of function research was lifted. After the outbreak of Covid, Dr. Fauci worked tirelessly lobbying the NIH and news media to convince the public that the outbreak came from a wet market. Having been involved in funding gain of function research, he had a strong incentive to do so. It is impossible he did not know the truth. It is impossible that the CIA, which recently changed its position and reported that it was “likely“ that the outbreak came from the lab, does not know the truth. It is impossible that all of the researchers and administrators at the NIH did not know the truth. And yet, in concert with mainstream and social media, these people labeled anyone stating the obvious as a conspiracy theorist. Think about it. The likelihood that this came from a wet market is so remote as to hardly be worth mentioning, yet they were telling us that we were some kind of conspiracy theorist if we stated the obvious. If you hear thundering hooves, think horses, not zebras. In this case there was the equivalent of thundering hooves, live witnesses, a photograph and a blood test, but the NIH and media are still telling us it was zebras.