Is this proof of lab leak lies? – UnHerd

There are many things we still do not know about the origins of this pandemic  including the central issue of whether it began with natural spillover from animals or some kind of laboratory incident. But we do know one thing now beyond debate: speculative gain-of-function experiments on mutant bat viruses were taking place in Wuhan laboratories.

This research, carried out in labs that did not have maximum level of biosafety, was increasing the infectivity of laboratory-created diseases by constructing chimeric coronaviruses despite strong denial of such practices by the key Chinese scientists. And the bio-engineering was being funded by United States taxpayers channelled through a charity run by a British scientist despite similar denials from America s most senior public health officials that they supported such science fiction activities in Chinese labs.

via unherd.com

And we have strong reasons to suspect the same sort of research is going on with far scarier viruses than our little bat buddies — ebola for instance, courtesy of our allies the Canadians. We should stop doing this.