When a lab has an accidental pathogen release, the typical pattern is that LAB employees, visitors and their family members are the first to be infected. They were at "ground zero". With COVID, 1st cluster is miles away, centered on a market ... so lab leak is improbable.
Here's a genuine lab leak ... smallpox leaks on one floor, kills someone in the same building. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_sm...
We know almost nothing about COVID’s earliest cases. Authorities pointed to the Huanan Seafood Market before doing the real work — even though early COVID had <5% hospitalization. That means many cases would've gone undetected.
COVID spreads too fast to easily preserve a clear "origin point." The HSM theory is pseudoscience from multiple angles. An epicenter isn't evidence — it's just a search tool. The first infected person could've traveled there.
Maybe we never got the true early cases. The local CCDC branch was just blocks away too. Too many "maybes" — that's why an epicenter is only a tool to get you to evidence, not the evidence itself.
China lied — repeatedly — about case counts and human-to-human transmission. They delayed alerts, censored doctors, and shaped the narrative.
Chinese has a very strong "shoot the messenger" culture in their bureaucracy. No one wants to be the official who reports a problem so they wait until it's too big to ignore (and far harder to fix) while they try to find a scapegoat. And the USA blinded itself! www.reuters.com/article/worl...
Yet some Western scientists still rely on Chinese data to rule out early Western signals — all while we're dealing with a virus that looks uniquely like their kind of work.
Over 100 U.S. serology samples tested positive before Jan 2020. Healthcare workers have recalled strange pneumonia cases from late 2019. But those clues get ignored — because they point to a ruse and a likely accident.