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Good point about the hearing. Grilling Peter Daszak like that was a travesty. All about politics, a public spectacle. I feel for the guy.

On the other hand, I think it would be helpful if Peter Daszak told more about what was going on at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It looks like they were doing research that could have caused the pandemic. Adding a furin cleavage site. Passaging the virus through mice with human lung tissue. Doing this work at BSL-2.

I have seen no evidence of any wrongdoing by Peter Daszak, either criminally or civilly. Nor anyone else. And there is no evidence that a backbone virus was in the Wuhan Institute of Virology's 150,000 virus collection.

But a lab leak does seem far from being ruled out. It puzzles me why Peter Daszak ruled it out so quickly.

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