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my opinion as well.

unfortunately, Chan and Ridley think it was most likely “accidental”, but otherwise this story should be more prominent worldwide than it is. instead, it is rarely brought up:

15 Dec: Sun UK: BUG BOMBSHELL Wuhan lab leak now the ‘most likely’ cause of Covid pandemic and the truth WILL come out, experts tell MPs
by Imogen Braddick
Dr Alina Chan, a genetic engineering expert, said she was “very confident” the truth will eventually come out about the origins of the deadly bug.

The molecular biologist at MIT and Harvard believes a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is “more likely than not” after two unsuccessful years of searching for an animal host...

“We’ve seen from previous cover-ups that it just takes time, because right now it’s not safe for people who know about the origin of the pandemic to come forward,” she said.
“It might be five years from now, it might be 50 years from now, but we live in an era where there is so much data being collected and stored that it will eventually come out.”

Matt Ridley, who co-authored Viral on the origins of the pandemic with Dr Chan, also said a lab leak was now the most likely origin - and urged investigators to find out in order to prevent the next pandemic.
The science writer told MPs: “I also think it’s more likely than not because we have to face the fact after two months we knew the origins of SARS through markets.
“After a couple of months we knew MERS was though through camels. In this case, after two years, we still haven’t found a single infected animal that could be the progenitor of this pandemic, and that’s incredibly surprising.”...

Chan: “We know now this virus has a very unique feature, called the furin cleavage site, that makes it the pandemic pathogen it is. So without this feature there is no way this virus would be causing this pandemic.
“A proposal was leaked showing that EcoHealth and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were developing a pipeline for inserting novel furin cleavage sites - these genetic modifications.
“So, you fund these scientists who said in early 2018 ‘I’m going to put horns on horses’ and at the end of 2019 a unicorn turns up in Wuhan city.
“It’s a striking coincidence that needs to be investigated.”...

Ridley: “We also need to know to deter bad actors who are watching this episode and thinking that unleashing a pandemic is something they could get away with.
“We know now that experiments were being done at Biosecurity Level 2 in Wuhan that resulted in 10,000 times increases in infectivity of viruses and three or four times their lethality.
“The important thing is to stop doing these experiments that are risky.”...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/17047986/wuhan-lab-leak-most-likely-cause-covid-pandemic/