Think about this one fact. Covid can only spread in doors. It doesn’t spread outdoors. A virus that naturally emerged from nature would not have difficulty spreading outdoors, but Covid does.
When the lab leak hypothesis was first proposed, the entire media establishment tried to silence people who said it. They were called kooks and conspiracy theorists or worse. This despite that a natural origin never made sense, was completely implausible, and the outbreak begin in one of the 2 cities on earth that housed a facility that was doing research on Corona viruses. Even Fauci himself worried about a lab leak privately in his emails, despite his public statements otherwise.
What this means is that because of censorship, we were deprived of the single best tool we had to fight Covid. Being out doors. If everyone knew this, we all could have just moved outside for a week or maybe even a few days, and Covid would have been driven to extinction. The disruption would have been on par with an extended camping trip for all of humanity. A fews and done. No disruption to world economies. No over flowing hospitals. No shutting down factories for a year. No endless government spending driving up inflation.
The magnitude of this screw up cannot be over stated. Covid was a self inflicted wound. A wound that never would have happened without the arrogance and incompetence of the people who created this virus, who also managed to give us the worst of all possible recommendations to combat it. Instead of being outdoors, parks were closed down and people were locked inside their homes, the one place where the virus had a fighting chance to spread.
Why anyone could ever trust these people to so much as manage a lemonade stand is beyond me. And why none of them ever went to prison for this is a horrific injustice.