Set up a competitor and undercut them.

Patents make that difficult.

Don't let the tail wag the dog

> wuhan having a virology institute experimenting on COVID-19 and being the center of the COVID-19 outbreak

Wasn’t this debunked years ago?

That's not going to stop the OP from bringing it up time and again in unrelated threads.

Carthago delenda est.

I don't bring it up at all, ever, except here. Post histories are open. It's a jokey analogy. People are looking for exotic ways scarcity are made and it's usually just an agreement between two people made in a 15 minute phone call.

No, it’s more thoroughly validated than most murder convictions.

All available evidence has only solidified the lab being the source of the virus.

It’s been confirmed by agencies around the world including the rather conservative German BND [0]. It’s not a conspiracy theory - it’s fact that COVID-19 is of Chinese lab leak origin. The only open question is whether that happened out of malice or stupidity.

[0]: https://www.dw.com/en/covid-pandemic-likely-unleashed-by-lab...

No. A bunch of agencies have started favoring the lab leak hypothesis with low confidence after recently reassessing the evidence. The BND has apparently favored it from the very beginning. Some others still back zoonotic spillover.

In any case, I'd wager no non-Chinese intelligence agency has the evidence to ascertain COVID-19 origin one way or the other. Both the initial confidence in natural origin and now this new certainty in declaring the lab leak hypothesis a fact seem nonsensical to me.

Low confidence? The category of 80-95% is enough for confirmation at intelligence standards. Stop protecting the CCP.

I was specifically referring to US agencies here, see:

https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/ODNI-3-November...

> CIA now joins DOE and FBI in assessing the more likely cause of the first human COVID-19 infection was a research-related incident.

> CIA has low confidence in this judgment

> Given CIA's low confidence, credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information could prompt CIA to change its assessment.

> Four agencies and the National Intelligence Council (NIC) continue to assess that natural contact with an animal infected with SARS-CoV-2—or a closely related progenitor virus—was the most likely cause of the first human COVID-19 infection.

It's interesting that the BND has higher confidence in its assessment but not sufficient to support your statement that the lab leak hypothesis has "been confirmed by agencies around the world"