Comment by kennywinker

That's an issue when you listen to health officials (political appointments) or intelligence services. I want to listen to actual virologists - the people who have worked or are working in the kind of labs it might have leaked from.

The reality is nobody can say confidently that it did, or that it didn't leak from a lab. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. But what virologists can say with some degree of confidence is that covid was probably NOT the product of genetic manipulation.

So if there's no evidence it was the subject of research, all we are left with is the coincidence of the wet market and the lab being a 40 minute drive away from each other.