"The natural emergence theory battles a bristling array of implausibilities."
This is a fantastic article, but amazingly almost all of it is year-old news. Most of this was known in March 2020, and nearly all of it by the end of 2020. How does it take so long for the truth to win?
I published a meta-analysis covering much of the same ground in November 2020 and this was only after waiting and expecting for several months that someone with a better platform would do so first. The article above covers the most important points but the story does go deeper: https://followtheplot.org/covid19
No on-the-ground analysis has been allowed in China.
For SARS and MERS we had data within months.
We don't have data on animals because it was a lab-escape event.
The claim that lab workers got flu-like symptoms in late 2019 blew my mind.
I wish I had time to investigate myself, but I'm 90% convinced that the reporter is correct and this is a lab-escape event.