1/ This NYT piece about how China has blocked the search into the origins of #sarscov2 is bizarre. It explains how the PRC won't allow a real investigation, but DOES NOT EVEN MENTION the possibility the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/world/who-china-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare
2/ And instead raises only one possible alternative: the straw man theory that "rumors and conspiracy theories, particularly among far-right and anti-China news sources, pushed the idea that Covid-19 had been manufactured in a Chinese laboratory."
NO.
NO.
3/ That's not the most likely alternative; the most likely alternative at this point - with NO evidence for a natural host, a natural virus very close to #sars-cov-2, or infection outside Wuhan - is that the virus leaked during gain-of-function experiments...