[null and void]

The variants don’t come from China

Not that I doubt you (I don't), but how could you prove that?

[Owen]

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The variants don’t come from China

>>Not that I doubt you (I don’t), but how could you prove that?<<

I doubt there is proof of the start of Alpha through Delta, too. The “where it comes from” is usually defined as “where was it first genome sequenced”.

Alpha, South England. Beta, South Africa. Gamma, Brazil. Delta, India. Lambda, Peru. Mu apparently Columbia.

China could have dropped each of these in each country mentioned. Pretty big conspiracy for no decent Chinese person to defect and talk. Seems unlikely.