T.B. Yoits wrote: “You’re kidding right? The Federal government knew the origins and imposed the lockdowns anyway. They had to pretend it was a bat virus that couldn’t have come from a lab in order to cover their own actions.”
From the article you posted: “Scientists unanimously told The Intercept that the experiment, which involved infecting genetically engineered mice with “chimeric” hybrid viruses, could not have directly sparked the pandemic. None of the viruses listed in the write-ups of the experiment are related to the virus that causes Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, closely enough to have evolved into it. Still, several scientists said the new information, which the NIH released after it was sued by The Intercept, points to biosafety concerns, highlighting a general lack of oversight for research on pathogens and raising questions about what other information has not been publicly disclosed.”
IOW, your source material doesn’t support your claims.
But, please continue to look for proof that “the federal government imposed those mandates to cover up the origins of the COVID virus.”
Says it all, doesn't it? Explains why Pfizer insisted on 75 YEARS to release their data. They wanted the release date long after the perpetrators and their first generation of offspring to have already passed.
Fauxi, with U.S. taxpayer money, funded a banned gain-of-function bio-weapon and it got out of the lab. The government and the propaganda media covered up the truth that it was created in a lab and blamed it on bats in the Wuhan market.
The lockdowns and mandates were to steal an election and cover up their crime.