Indictments, subpoenas, and debarments are hitting American scientists for COVID

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete. But pundits, activists, and members of the Trump administration have long insisted that the case is closed, and that the virus slipped out from a lab in China. They’ve maintained the view that U.S. scientists were involved and later tried to hide the facts. They’ve said that justice must be served.

Now the reckoning they want appears to have arrived. An expert on the flu got hauled off by the FBI. A coronavirus researcher was indicted in Detroit. Two prominent virologists stepped down or were removed from senior roles. And a fifth infectious-disease researcher—Anthony Fauci, the central figure in an alleged “lab-leak” cover-up—was recently subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. Senate.

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[SVPete]

The full, detailed, story of the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus will almost certainly never be revealed. China holds and is keeping secret much of the information. The evidence for then lab leak is circumstantial, but solid enough to conclude there was a leak. There is evidence of a two-week shutdown of the pertinent section of WIV and of an unusual traffic surge at Wuhan hospitals. In a culture where bicycles are a main means of transport, that the surge was cars probably means sick people were being transported.

China’s refusal to be transparent is further evidence that it was a leak.