So multiple intelligence agencies knew the pandemic was a lab leak from Wuhan and it was covered up from the public. This is massive. https://t.co/k1faLdSszz

— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) March 16, 2025

I believe that Covid was a lab leak, but I don’t think “knew” is the right word here. “Knew” implies certitude, which we’ll never have. There will never be a smoking gun. I’m sure China destroyed that long ago.

“Beyond reasonable doubt” as stated in the intelligence report is more accurate. The preponderance of evidence and simple common sense all point to a lab leak. The evidence against this conclusion appear to be all engineered or an attempted coping mechanism by scientists who are worried about their funding being affected by the consequences of revealing such a large mistake (though lab leaks happen rather frequently, just usually not so consequentially).

It is good to see the lab leak hypothesis going from “wacky conspiracy theory that only terrible, terrible racists believe” to relatively accepted.