ZeroHedge nearly got deplatformed for such an assertion in early 2020.
It was NOT a “leak. It was a deliberate release. “Leak” is a fallback position when the bat soup wet-market theory they pushed so hard didn’t fly.
Fall of 2019, China had rapidly growing and spreading protests in Wuhan and Hong Kong. The Tiennamen Square solution was not possible in the modern intertwined business world.
Also Trump was cruising to reelection and his tariffs were hurting them.
It was deliberately released and in common cause with the DC party, the covid terror was pushed.
If the animal vector was a pangolin used in the lab to test a gene splicing process to enhance effectiveness of the furin cleavage site for animal to human transmission that animal could have been sold in the market for a huge price. If it was one animal, it would have sold quickly and would not have been noticed.
“Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836551/
“The spike protein is a focused target of COVID-19, a pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. A 12-nt insertion at S1/S2 in the spike coding sequence yields a furin cleavage site, which raised controversy views on origin of the virus. Here we analyzed the phylogenetic relationships of coronavirus spike proteins and mapped furin recognition motif on the tree. Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2.”
“We mapped the furin recognition motif RXXR at both S1/S2 and S2′ positions in phylogenetic trees of spike protein sequences (Fig. 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 5 and S2, S3). In the Sarbecovirus + Hibecovirus + Nobecovirus clade (Fig. 3), furin cleavage sites at either position occur only in limited ranges. Strains of SARS-CoV-2 (we also added sequences from the GISAID database) have furin cleavage sites at spike S1/S2. Moreover, SARS-CoV-2 is the only virus in subgenus Sarbecovirus having this feature, while even its closest relatives, bat coronavirus RaTG13 (sequence identity 97.7%) and pangolin coronaviruses (92.9%–90.7%), do not have furin site. However, in Hibecovirus, the sister clade of Sarbecovirus, a Hipposideros bat coronavirus collected in 2013 at Zhejiang Province in China has furin site at S1/S2. Interestingly, the other member in Hibecovirus lacks such site, similar to the situation of SARS-CoV-2 and its close relatives. The SARS-CoV-2 strains and Hipposideros bat coronavirus (Zhejiang 2013) are not sister groups, in agreement with the distinct sequence patterns of their furin cleavage sites at spike S1/S2 (Fig. 6 A). Besides, two strains of bat coronavirus HKU9, belonging to Nobecovirus, are the only members in the Sarbecovirus + Hibecovirus + Nobecovirus clade having furin cleavage site at spike S2′.”
If correct, then the governments of the US and China share the blame for the whole global Covid plague. That it was their employees and agents, acting independently within their respective bureaucracies, which engaged in such egregiously dangerous behavior, does not mitigate national responsibility.
One day I expect to see a vast global liability claim vs the US and China. The scale of this would be utterly economy-destroying.