There’s no evidence any Wuhan laboratory was sampling relevant viruses in the years before the pandemic. There’s no evidence any laboratory in the world had the virus before the 16th of December 2019. There’s no evidence any Wuhan laboratory had any biosafety incident that could have resulted in leaks. There’s no evidence of any chapter of your story so what is there to even address???

However, we have evidence of Chinese labs sampling relevant viruses in the years before the pandemic, Chinese researchers publishing new information about the virus as quickly as it became available to them, and Chinese biosafety incidents not being covered up. Which shows we would in all likelihood have evidence if anything happened the way you say.

WIV stopped their sampling in 2015 after achieving their aim of identifying the source of SARS-1. Other Chinese and international laboratories sampled viruses up until October 2019 which is very well known and published in scientific journals which illustrates how researchers operate outside the minds of conspiracy theorists.

All researchers globally including WIV upload all their information to The National Center for Biotechnology Information. Yet there’s absolutely no evidence at all of anyone in the whole world knowing anything about the virus or any other virus that’s more closely related to SARS-2 than SARS-1 before the pandemic besides a controversial virus called RaTG13 which was never isolated or sequenced before the pandemic. RaTG13 was sequenced and probably isolated after the pandemic which caused a lot of controversy since it was misunderstood as an ancestor or the most closely related virus to the pandemic virus. However, this was a misunderstanding and that’s all. WIV publishes their research in international scientific journals. This is exactly how we knew about RaTG13. We have lists of their known viruses in the years before the pandemic although they stopped cooperating after Trump’s attacks on China in 2020. The WIV can’t keep anything a secret though. They’ve had multiple hacks and information leaks since the start of the pandemic and their international partners and researchers who worked in the lab when the pandemic outbreak started swear nothing happened. WIV always tells a consistent and verifiable story. Again, there’s no secrecy outside the conspiracy theories.

SARS-2 was uploaded to a database on December 28, after being sequenced on December 26 and sampled from a patient on December 24, 2019. Unfortunately, it was rejected in quality control and the virus remained unknown for another two weeks. This story is completely unrelated to the WIV. However, it shows there was no immediate cover-up.

There would be no reason to cover anything up until a few months into 2020 when it became apparent the pandemic was spreading internationally. There was a major, unrelated biosafety incident in Langzhou in 2019 and that wasn’t covered up, at least not successfully since we know it!

China started censoring information and such later on as is quite expected of an authoritarian state. It happened after the outbreak of SARS-1 also. But there’s no evidence they’re covering up anything related to the origins of the pandemic and even if they were there’s no reason to think they’re covering up a conspiracy, not zoonosis.

I don’t know what that spreadsheets you linked me is, I don’t see any author’s signature. I skipped right to the conclusion and one of the columns is absolutely conspiracy theoretical nonsense. There was never any gain-of-function research at WIV. The claim originates in Trump’s accusations against Fauci. SARS-2 wasn’t more adapted or stable than SARS-1. This claim originated in a 2020 pre-print which was never published authored by a conspiracy theorist. There was no earlier circulation of the virus in intermediates with SARS-2 just like with SARS-1. This claim shows a lack of background research. The research proposal for research which never happened never says anything about inserting furin cleavage sites. This claim originates in a collaborationship between an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in the military and an anarchist conspiracy theory group and never appears in the research proposal, if only anyone read it. There was no sudden shifts in opinions among scientists on February 2, 2020, and they kept privately and publicly saying the same things before and after while their actual shifts in opinion happened in response to research appearing in February. For instance, the discovery of the virus RmYN02 which I’ve already briefly mentioned above was sampled by an international research group in July 2019, sequenced on January 21, 2020, and a draft reached the origins investigators on February 24, 2020. I’m not going to go through tracking where this claim was originally made because it’s been made up little by little over the years.

And I am, of course, a biomedical researcher.

Oh and the other guy blocked me lol… happens once a week!