Newsweak would not have published this OP-ED just a few months ago, calling any such opinions “nationalist”, “xenophobic” and “fringe”. They even tried to blame Trump for black on Asian crime to blunt the push for investigation. That Newsweak suddenly approves such content tells me the CCP has approved some limited push for investigation, but the fix is in. Our Intelligence Community will likely work with China and the WHO to officially “debunk” the lab theory. I would be surprised to see actual investigation by the IC, but it will be embarrassing if foreign intel agencies from India, Israel or elsewhere come up with a smoking gun, so they will have to hedge their report as “inconclusive” or some other weasel words.
We are seeing the deployment of a good old fashioned modified limited hang out. So we’ll get a lab leak theory and not a bio weapon attack.