HK scientist: COVID-19 was "created in a lab"

This information is not new:

The arguments put forward by the “whistleblower” have been around for six months:

Some respectable virologists support this thesis. Others do not. My own view is it is likely the right explanation. The dubious process by which RatG13 suddenly appeared as an intellectual figment without samples, which were supposedly lost, is far too convenient for words.

For what it is worth, I don’t think it likely that the virus was released deliberately. It’s going to harm Chinese interests a lot long term. Occam’s razor suggests the usual human blundering. We’ll never know.

Twitter and Facebook have decided to censor the good doctor’s material. There is no good reason for that I can see.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.

HK scientist: COVID-19 was “created in a lab”