First, it was supposedly a conspiracy theory.
Then, it was banned.
Finally, it was true.
The so-called “lab leak” theory of the origins of COVID-19 – the theory that COVID-19 originated in at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and then was unintentionally loosed – was always the most probable explanation for the outbreak of the deadly virus. After all, as Jon Stewart correctly joked in 2021, “‘Oh, my God, there’s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China. What do we do?’ ‘Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab.’ The disease is the same name as the lab. That’s just a little too weird, don’t you think?”
But for well over a year, it was considered verboten to mention the lab leak theory. When Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., posited the possibility of a lab leak in February 2020, he was roundly mocked by the media. Read more…
