The TRUTH sets us free. As with most anything in this world I think this topic is nuanced and should be presented in a way that people should decide for themselves. My instinct, which I will say has been wrong, is that it was from a lab after I learned about GOF and the people involved with it including Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvard's now closed Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Fauci, EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak, et al. My gut said, "follow the money."
Nicholas Wade published the very same article in both Medium on 5/2/21 and then a few days later on 5/5/21 in The Bulletin. I provided a link to this article two weeks ago in another thread of Bari's substack (Believe Science. Get Vaccinated. Then Relax). The case Wade presents to a careful reader is that covid most likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan. Of course, people who have been following this story from the beginning have known about Gain of Function studies and the lab leak hypothesis for over a year.
I wish I never knew what GOF was but once I learned about it spring 2020 and started to connect the dots (actually must have had some kind of 'manic' episode bc I spent 2 days straight in June with large pieces of butcher paper taped to my walls with all the actors and their organizations and relationships, then started drawing arrows connecting them - and I was frightened). I'm just a curious and concerned layperson who researched it with rigor (and it's all there if you take the time to look). I've been hanging onto "the truth sets us free" with bandaids and paperclips. Well, it seems that the spotlight is getting brighter. Hubris is the Achilles heel and history shows us that people with hubris don't always have a good ending (Nero, Hilter).