“China lied, people died.” In a sense this is true, but not in the way that lab leakers assume.
New evidence shows Covid samples closely associated with raccoon dog DNA in that famous Wuhan animal market. The Chinese government denied that raccoon dogs were being sold there. It seems they lied. (Just as they lied about the death toll from the recent Covid outbreak in China, which was an order of magnitude higher than the official figures.)
People who rely on lab leaker “evidence”, may wonder why GPT-4 apparently views the zoonotic origin hypothesis as being more plausible. This LA Times story does a nice job of laying out the evidence that the animal market is the culprit. (BTW, It’s written by a scientist that had previously called for more research on the possibility of a lab leak.)
Of course the lab leakers are already trashing the Atlantic story, whining that the scientific findings have not yet been released. Wait, aren’t these the same people who recently touted the US intelligence community’s claims? Has that evidence been released?
So cute, but so deadly:
