Peter Daszak was touting the Global Virome Project before the pandemic, balancing the perceived need for research on viruses with the dangers of a lab leak occuring as a result of the research.
Meanwhile, Daszak's pre-pandemic DEFUSE Project seeking funding thru DARPA was a road map to a lab leak occurence, the danger that Daszak was warning about in the Global Virome Project.
From Newsweek, 2 years ago ....
"The proposal, for a project called DEFUSE, details how scientists from EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology wanted to study the threat of bat-borne coronaviruses by sequencing samples from cave bats, reverse-engineering those samples to produce viruses, and then inserting these into mice to see what would happen in order to prepare for possible human outbreaks."
https://www.newsweek.com/wuhan-us-scientists-make-coronaviruses-ecohealth-wiv-drastic-documents-1636532Nothing leads to a zoonotic theory other than 'well geez, I suppose it might be possible.'
Throw that up on the wall and see if it sticks.