We'll never find out what happened. That's the idea. Let's focus on people who refuse to get vaccinated, requiring kids to receive an 'approved for emergency use' vaccine, people who have had the virus and acquired immunity but are unvaccinated, or asympotomatic people walking around with sufficient viruses crawling around in their noses to trigger a positive test.
A year and a half, and the world has no idea how this happened but we're being told we have to worry about Jack and Jill down the street who had the virus and don't see the need for a vaccination.
A possibility: gain of function research that was being done in lab in China that our State Dept was told was unsafe and we were involved in the funding and the bypassing of protocol in the funding.
Hopefully, this was at worst a leak that was accidental.
But let's worry about Jack and Jill and 97.
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It may be years, or even decades, before scientists have the information to make any firm conclusions on the origin of COVID-19. The Ebola virus, which was discovered in 1976, is thought to have spread to humans from bats or nonhuman primates, but scientists still haven't identified the origin from a specific animal host.
Unfortunately I expect the tense US-China relationship will impede the search for answers.
Sure, keep investigating the lab-leak hypothesis and natural origins theory, but free from political agendas. I think we can also take steps now (increase lab safety audits and phase out wet markets) to stop a future pandemic without knowing where this one came from.
Meanwhile, keep encouraging the vaccine-hesitant to get jabbed. Work to improve vaccination rates in other countries.
It's not over.