Four federal agencies consider lab-leak hypothesis for COVID origin, one ranks it "low confidence" spurring WSJ headline

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I'm with Stewart. At least as far as we don't know what we don't know.

There are the crazies who said it couldn't have anything to do with China and a lab, even though it came from China, in close proximity to a lab with the same unrelated inactive viruses. There are also the crazies on the other side who believed China was unleashing a bio-weapon, and it was all part of a huge conspiracy involving Fauci, Soros, Gates, etc. We will probably not know the answer for some time, as actual journalism has been stifled.

FTFY.
and yet
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00283-y
I don't think that means what you think it means.
what does it mean?

WHO abandons plans for crucial second phase of COVID-origins investigation
Sensitive studies in China were intended to pinpoint the source of the pandemic virus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has quietly shelved the second phase of its much-anticipated scientific investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing ongoing challenges over attempts to conduct crucial studies in China, Nature has learned.

...In January 2021, an international team of experts convened by the WHO travelled to Wuhan, China, where the virus that causes COVID-19 was first detected. Together with Chinese researchers, the team reviewed evidence on when and how the virus might have emerged, as part of phase one. The team released a report in March that year outlining four possible scenarios, the most likely being that SARS-CoV-2 spread from bats to people, possibly through an intermediate species. Phase one was designed to lay the groundwork for a second phase of in-depth studies to pin down exactly what happened in China and elsewhere.

But two years since that high-profile trip, the WHO has abandoned its phase-two plans. “There is no phase two,” Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, told Nature. The WHO planned for work to be done in phases, she said, but “that plan has changed.”

...Leaving us with the best intelligence pointing to zoonotic origins.

Period.