Trump started pushing lab leak/bioweapon nonsense without any evidence--indeed, before any real attempt to figure out where it came from could be conducted. And he started calling it the "China virus" and the "Kung flu."
Looking at evidence that the virus leaked from WIV should be rationally explored. Pushing China as the villain without evidence to deflect from one's own failure is another thing entirely.
BTW, the wet market origin is not exactly a good look for China either, since that is where SARS originated, and they were supposed to crack down on it.
Pretty sure it was always thought to have originated in Wuhan and nothing has changed, don’t really think it was a stretch that Trump called it that, but whatever.
It’s astounding to me that three years later some are still politically inclined to vigorously defend proximal origins simply because Trump called it the Chinese Virus. Pretty incredible how much one raging buffoon lives rent free in a large percentage of the population’s heads, and has shaped their thinking indefinitely.
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