I wrote this in June 2020…
It should have been pretty clear to anyone at the very outset that it was a lab leak. Biosecurity leaks are actually very common (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents)
What are the chances that a coronavirus pandemic begins within 20km of the worlds leading coronavirus research facility? The land area of the Earth is 510,000,000 kmsq.
This commercially produced video predates the pandemic and gives you a good idea of the kind of work that was done at the Wuhan Institute. https://youtu.be/ovnUyTRMERI Lab staff were literally travelling 1,000's of miles around China to large bat caves, picking up bat excrement and scraping the throats of live and dead bats to harvest as many coronaviruses as possible. They were then shipping these samples back to Wuhan (a major population centre), and infecting 100's of generations of human cells in the lab with these wild virus samples and bombarding them with radiation.
They engaged in genetic engineering and gain of function research on these viruses, claiming they were researching a vaccine. All of this was going on inside the lab in Wuhan. So the worlds leading coronavirus research facility was researching coronavirus vaccines? Yet not one single COVID vaccine was produced from this research work? They didn't even share any of their masses of coronavirus research with vaccine makers once the pandemic took off.
If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck... Can you imagine if the pandemic started in the West? You would have people from the lab on TV every day, explaining what happened or why they are innocent. The press would be all over the place, the innocent staff would be on TV in tears wondering what they had done.
Also the Wuhan Lab is the worlds leading research institute for coronaviruses. We are in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic... Now imagine the pandemic started in Afghanistan or Africa or the Amazon... don't you think someone from this institute might have something useful to add in the scenario of a coronavirus pandemic? Yet we got crickets.
There are many dogs that are not barking, lots of stories missing from the news that would be there if this really were a natural pandemic. It is 100% a lab leak, this was obvious from the very start. It was particularly scary to see WHO denounce it as such.
Rather than pour water on the lab leak theory, statements from WHO merely illuminated an even larger problem of institutional coercion / infiltration. I don't think it was intentional leak. China are just very bad at biosecurity inside their exceedingly dangerous bioweapons facilities. They're very lucky they didn't kill all their people, the virus has become much less deadly over time, as viruses do. But who knows when this really started or how lethal that first epidemic was.
To conclude; the biosphere has just become another domain of geopolitics. Imagine an asymptomatic virus that caused people to produce 10% more testosterone or 15% less dopamine or did some other mild endocrinological thing. You could decide election outcomes of your rivals quite easily with such a technology. These technologies already exist in the world today.