It all comes out in the wash in the end, my mother used to say, pouring the clothes in a giant copper, to get hot. Sure, the clothes always seemed to shrink, but they sure came out clean! Likewise, it is now reported that the scientists who wrote the March 2020 Nature Medicine article, which rejected the lab leak hypothesis of the origin of Covid, did so because they were afraid to blame China for accidentally releasing the virus. “An accusation that nCoV-2019 might have been engineered and released into the environment by humans (accidental or intentional) would need to be supported by strong data, beyond reasonable doubt,” Dutch virologist Dr. Ron Fouchier wrote in a Feb. 2, 2020, email. “It is good that this possibility was discussed in detail with a team of experts. However, further debate about such accusations would unnecessarily distract top researchers from their active duties and do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular.” But, the natural release hypothesis was not supported by strong data, as the animal in the wild responsible for the species jumping was not identified, and never has been.
The concern was about preventing harm to China, even though the possibility was before them that this virus could cause devastation to the West, not so much by the virus itself, but through the technocratic over-reach that would result from both public fear, stirred up by a ruthless media, and the technocrats drive for social control, seen in the unscientific and cruel lockdowns, not to mention, police state brutality.