Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says
Lab leak of what even? There is nothing magical about virological labs. They don&#x27;t create new virus out of nothing. Most of the time there is a &quot;lab leak&quot; the  virus already had all the potential it had before. In all the cases I can remember, the only reason the &quot;lab leak&quot; was even a significant event (as opposed to a bucket spilling into the ocean) is when the lab was geographically distinct from the endemic occurrence or the virus had been largely eradicated before.<p>The main problem with &quot;lab leak hypotheses&quot; is that they aren&#x27;t clear about what went into that supposed lab and what came out of it. Was there an obscure bat virus? Was there something already infectious to Humans (but somehow undetected by other scientists)? Are we alleging genetic editing? &quot;Gain of Function&quot; (which is easier said then done)? That Sars-CoV-2 genome which first hit Wuhan was already a finely tuned killing machine, much more finely tuned than anything a lab could produce intentionally. All of this makes speculation about the Virus having passed through a laboratory somewhere incredibly pointless, except for trying to undermine scientific consensus.