My. How increibly intuitive thety are at MIT, sarc/off
My first hint the virus was lab produced - - reports in late December and early January that some towns around Wuhan had torn up their roads so people fleeing Wuhan would not go through their villages.
That’s a red flag.
In totalitarian hellholes important information is always sent ‘word of mouth’... to trusted family members to other trusted family members - to trusted in-laws to their trusted family members... and on and on and on... And when the information is life or death it moves quickly and accurately.
Someone at the lab told a family member there had been a breech... Then the government stepped in to stir the pot AND take control.. that move is still strange to me. Fake road blocks were set up with government paid protesters... that one’s a mystery.
Anyhow it was obvious it wasn’t a case of someone has the flu...