From my understanding there appears to be some merit in the possibility that the Wuhan lab was studying a natural covid virus in bats and it leapt from a bat to another animal then to a researcher at the lab. Is this the correct understanding ?
e: Ok I understand, it’s just a theory with nothing supporting it. I don’t read the MSM but most everyone (even leftists) seemed to give some credence to this theory.
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I just finished reading this article and it did a good job of compiling and addressing the best evidence that's been presented for the lab leak, namely the Wade and Baker articles, but I'm not convinced that this Goldstein guy is offering a solid rebuttal.
But...the Wuhan lab does have animals though. Nobody is hiding them. They have "humanized mice", which have specially engineered epithelial tissue to model people. I'm also sure American labs like Ft. Detrick also have the best research animals that money can buy at their disposal. They used to kill monkeys by the dozens during the development of the Korean War bioweapons.
And why does he say that the lab would need to have perfected zoonotic transmission? SARS2 was, from the beginning, perfectly adapted to infect people. You only need one animal model for that, not a "petting zoo" of different animals.
This Goldstein guy seems to be operating under the assumption that a long zoonotic pathway for SARS2 has already been identified and confirmed (as it has been for SARS) and that any lab leak theory would need to account for such a pathway, but that's just not the case here. It's less complicated that he is making it out to be.