Telegraph: ‘Behind closed doors,’ lab leak is considered most likely origin of COVID HotAir

He said: I think the official view [within Government] is that it is as likely as anything else to have caused the pandemic. A lot of people like myself think it is more likely. I think attitudes have changed a little bit. The zoonotic transfer theory just didn t make sense.

There is a huge amount of concern about coming out publicly, but behind closed doors most people think it s a lab leak. And they are coming round to the fact that even if they don t agree with that, they must accept it s likely, and they must make sure the policies are in place to stop it. &

My big concern is that next time it might not be an accident, because it s easy to do. If you had no morals and no scruples, why not infect your enemy?

The Telegraph also references a story published earlier this month which seems to provide some support for the lab leak theory, at least potentially. It was a discovery that came about by accident when scientists from the University of Veterinary Medicine and Lorand University in Budapest, Hungaryin Hungary sent soil samples previously collected in Antarctica to a Chines lab to have them sequenced:

via hotair.com

Of course it is.