Let’s go back to about December, 2019, before the Chinese government threw a blanket over the Chinese researchers in Wuhan.
Many research docs had been available about the SARS virus that had been studied for years. COVID-19 was in that group and was not well understood, so several papers were available discussing its unique mutations. Gain of function was well noted.
I and several other posters at FR presented these findings. Other medical researchers saw that the gain of function kind of mutations were just not possible in such a short time naturally.
The other oddity is that the COVID-19 mutation was unable to sicken the very healthy bats and pangolins that it supposedly came from.
Rather than a lab leak it was suspected that some of the lab animals were sold at the nearby wet market. Contamination of Wuhan lab workers was also suspected.
Concur. Very unlikely (near-zero, if not actually zero), probability that the Wuhan virus was deliberately leaked.
Near-certainty it was deliberately researched and enhanced - WITH Dr Fauci’s money, grants, influence and support with US dollars and grants! The principle researcher can be traced directly from Fauci department and research to her Canadian lab to the Chinese Wuhan lab.
Most likely it was leaked by a Wuhan employee or worker into the bloody open-door meat market from lab animals sold for profit or extra pocket money, or by simple careless behavior, or by accidental personal exposure to a family member.