Comment by OneManyNone

Would anyone who’s seen the debate let me know how/if Peter addressed by far the most overwhelming piece of evidence in favor of a lab leak? This is, that there the outbreak was next to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the only Biosafety level 4 lab in China and also a facility known for its study of Novel Caronaviruses. Shouldn’t this observation, paired with the fact that there are presumably thousands of wet markets across the country, be strong enough to make almost any other evidence irrelevant? The only possible argument I could imagine is that maybe caronavirus strains were already unusually common in that region before the institute was built. But until and unless someone can show something like that is true (I admit I haven’t really looked into it) it’s hard to imagine that virtually any other evidence could create a strong update.