We went from it being banned on Facebook to it having mainstream acceptance in like a week despite ZERO change in the underlying evidence. The evidence was always just "well there's a lab there". The only thing that changed was Trump isn't president anymore.
It's the perfect rorschach issue for underlying bias, free of any clearcut facts that might be evaluated neutrally.
Very disenchanted with the media over the last 5 years, and it did not used to be this bad.
It really doesn't matter if it came from the lab or from the environment. The fact that they covered it up shows the lab was breaking protocols and they believed it could have been the lab that released the virus.
The lab needs to be shut down and similar labs shut as well to institute a major overhaul of the system.
Why would China give them ammunition? Even if we assume that the virus didn't come from a lab, it's impossible to prove and handing over a bunch of raw data to a motivated actor has no upsides.
If someone had collected US research grant money and went the other way would we call them 'paid by America'?
Like I said. The perfect rorschach issue.