I am so old, I remember when this was a hypothesis too dangerous to even be allowed on social media. I seem to remember @zerohedge actually got their account turned off by @jack for hypothesizing the same thing 9 months ago https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html

Speech restrictions like those imposed by social media vis a vis COVID are always political, meant to protect the reputation and power of some group of people. For those of you who disagree, who still think there are legitimate public benefits from banning one side of a debate...

...ask yourself, how do we know which side of the debate is so obviously wrong that it must be banned without having had open discourse and debate on the issue in the first place?

COVID origin theory was never publicly discussed, it was just decided by our masters that it couldn't have been a lab leak and we were not allowed to discuss it.

Ditto masks & quarantines -- despite years of studies to the contrary, one day they were deemed by the illuminati to be self-evidently efficacious and skepticism of them was immediately off limits.

At the very moment of the most astounding expansion of government power in my lifetime, we have greatly narrowed the ability to discuss and criticize this expansion. 2020 was a very bad year, not due to the virus but due to the elite and government response to it.