Professor at Nova Southeastern University.
Antibiotic Resistance, Agent-Based Models, Seizure Prediction, Information Entropy of DNA
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Compare with how much adaptation was required with SARS1
The most basic question that any theory has to answer is how did the BANAL-like backbone get from Yunnan/Laos without leaving a trace anywhere else
This just makes Proximal Origin look worse and worse. *Of course* they would have an unpublished full-length clone. 
This raises some larger points. So much of the Natural Origin case is tied to proving a market spillover hypothesis, which in turn relies very strongly on a timeline of no or very few early cases... Which is very fragile to reports of earlier sick people retroactively removed.
But how do their arguments hold up in light of the DEFUSE grant?
"At a time when trust and transparency were needed to save lives, Chinese authorities covered up the facts and lied — and they continue to do so today."
(1) "We can firmly determine" leaves no room for doubt
If you need more evidence of Dr. Fauci trying to downplay the possibility of a lab origin in the early days, he went on Newt Gingrich's podcast on Feb 9, 2020, and made it seem like only animal sources were worth considering:
*UPDATE* 
Garry has gone on to write multiple articles about how he's now convinced the FCS was not engineered.
Now why ever would Shi Zhengli hypothetically keep this vital information from her friend Peter?
The Furin Cleavage site of SARS2 and MERS are both unusual (non-canonical), in that they have something other than R or K in the third position:
