https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-o...b7b0a?mod=e2tw
So the energy department has (belatedly) acknowledged the pandemic was most likely a lab leak.
Given the facts of the virus and pandemic** (most of which were known in early 2020), it really was a masterclass in censorship, manipulation and social control by the MSM and "scientific community" that they were able to gaslight the general public for so long that "natural origin" was the most likely culprit, and discount many of those who pointed out the obvious that it never was.
Including, but not restricted to:
*Pandemic originated in the same locale as one of two places in the entire world that was doing research on modifying coronaviruses (from a straight logic standpoint even knowing absolutely nothing about Coronaviruses or epidemics, this point alone should make the lab leak theory the default position in a rational world)
*SARS-COV-2 is most genetically similar to viruses discovered in bats in caves over 2000 miles away
*It is known the Wuhan lab had sent scientists to these caves to collect specimens to take back to Wuhan and study following a small infection of humans locally.
*SARS-COV-2 came out of the gate strongly adapted to infect a wide variety of human cell types, which is not generally how zoonotic jumps work.