Who says nothing about the virus being created in a lab.
He says "There was a large number of mutations in this variant—many more than we would expect from the normal evolution of this virus", which everyone knows, and he likely thinks it's due to the scenario that has been posited since the beginning of Omicron:
"Perhaps someone immune-compromised was infected, and active replication of the virus was maintained for a very long time."
She then cites a scientific paper...
And that paper acknowledges the most popular hypothesis is the one mentioned above - that Omicron developed in an immuno-compromised person. They then go on to speculate about it having arisen in mice, and in fact speculate that mice have long been an alternate host for SARS CoV-2. Their thesis is the mutations happened in mice in the wild and they say absolutely nothing about lab development.
As I said, she couldn't find a single person to put up the lab theory who was willing to use their name.
Pekosz says the mutations suggest a non evolutionary process. A non evolutionary process is something that doesn't occur in the wild.
"Perhaps someone immune-compromised was infected, and active replication of the virus was maintained for a very long time."
That's NOT a quote from Pekosz. That's a quote from one of the unnamed sources. You know the unnamed sources that you criticized for being unnamed. Now you are using the unnamed source to attempt to make your argument. And you neglected to mention that the source also described the more probable lab scenario.
And that paper acknowledges the most popular hypothesis is the one mentioned above - that Omicron developed in an immuno-compromised person. They then go on to speculate about it having arisen in mice, and in fact speculate that mice have long been an alternate host for SARS CoV-2. Their thesis is the mutations happened in mice in the wild and they say absolutely nothing about lab development.
Where in their paper does it say that the mice mutations happened in the "wild"?? It doesn't. And it doesn't describe it as the most "popular" scenario either.
As Attkisson goes on cite...
Seems like it's common knowledge that mice don't naturally catch and transmit COVID. They have to be humanized in a lab. Never mind that mice are the animals typically used in lab experiments.