Sometimes the #OriginsOfCOVID gang (@Ayjchan etc) decide that the Chinese government’s reticence about sharing information from research centers is evidence for a #LabLeak. By that standard, is this evidence for spillover? washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pac… 
More. The Chinese government and regional governments have made it extremely hard to get any data on fur farms, exotic meat farms, and wild meat hunters. The *existence* of those products for sale in Wuhan is still being covered up within China.
Enshi is far closer to Wuhan than Yunnan, where the closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2 in China has been found. But it appears no one has sampled the viromes of Rhinolophus in Enshi. Practices there clearly warrant investigation.
The Chinese government’s tailing of reporters and suppressing discussion of potential sources of zoonosis isn’t proof that they know anything. Nor is their behavior around WIV evidence of any internal knowledge. It’s a secretive repressive government. Of course it acts secretive!
I just think that people who see any signs of shadiness as proof of a conspiracy should probably read the Post’s excellent reporting on a potential path for zoonotic spillover into Wuhan.
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