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There is circumstantial evidence for a lab leak, and there is circumstantial evidence for the wet market. That's fair, but somehow the wet market was accepted as truth for the last year, and the lab leak was treated as a crazy conspiracy. We don't know the truth, China is blocking access to look into the facts.

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To me, it's an act of guilt when CCP won't cooperate with the international community and is withholding crucial details.

The CCP habitually does that, so it doesn’t add much information one way or the other.

True. However, they should bear consequences for such behavior. Being treated as guilty for covering things up seems like a reasonably appropriate consequence.

There should be consequences, I agree.

I would strongly disagree that the consequences should involve us biasing our own map of the world. I'm sure we can find some solution that doesn't involve spreading probable falsehoods.

In all possibilities it was a major case of criminal ignorance and negligence towards major epidemic source by the chinese political and medical officiaries. Which resulted in multitrillion damages and hundreds of thousands of excess deaths at the scale of the whole planet.

And instead of transparency, investigation, apologies and reforms what we will get after another cup of nationalistic lies is Taiwan war.

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