Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

I don’t think it falls into conspiracy theory territory, and it should absolutely be pursued as a line of inquiry. I personally take issue with jumping to it as a likely conclusion as some have. As you imply finding out one way or the other will be difficult thanks to China.

I don't see a good reason to think it's considerably more or less likely than the wet market hypothesis; early media coverage seemed to imply they'd found SARS-CoV-2 in the pangolins, but at my last check that wasn't the case

Intentionally: very, very, very low. Probability of an unintentional release falls within the same order of magnitude as an organic animal-to-human transmission at a wet market, but with foreign journalists and investigators barred it's unlikely we'll know any time soon

I have no educated opinion yet, but it strikes me as quite odd that there hasn’t been more mainstream discussion of the fact that the lab is ~900 feet from the wet market where we know the first human transmission happened.

Of course the market is 0 feet away from the wet market = infinitely closer