The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins

“…Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark…

…A months long Vanity Fair investigation, interviews with more than 40 people, and a review of hundreds of pages of U.S. government documents, including internal memos, meeting minutes, and email correspondence, found that conflicts of interest, stemming in part from large government grants supporting controversial virology research, hampered the U.S. investigation into COVID-19’s origin at every step. In one State Department meeting, officials seeking to demand transparency from the Chinese government say they were explicitly told by colleagues not to explore the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s gain-of-function research, because it would bring unwelcome attention to U.S. government funding of it…”

To paraphrase Ed Driscoll:

“…what kind of bizarre hell-world have we entered where Vanity Fair is a voice of sanity and reason…”

Even mealy-mouthed, liberal paste-eaters have “woken”