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You haven’t kept up with the latest. Japanese researchers have proven that the original COVID virus plus all variants have 100% come from a lab setting. In other words, they were engineered by a group of people to infect humans.

You're right, I have not kept up with the latest in antivax conspiracy rhetoric. Is that the newest claim, that some (unidentified) researchers in Japan "proved" that SARS-CoV-2 and all of its variants were created in a lab? Where is the link to the blog that made this claim?

Thousands of scientists have analyzed the original SARS-CoV-2 virus sequence, as well as sequences of the variants. They not only concluded that the virus is natural, but furthermore determined that it most likely evolved in bats. If one group of unidentified Japanese scientists at an unidentified research laboratory found evidence of human modification of the virus, that would be incredibly surprising. And a review of their research would find either they had made a scientifically unsupportable assumption, or they had committed errors in their research.