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>The lab leak would have to be covered up by the Chinese authorities and the WHO would some how have had to be in on it.

Indeed. There's another important bit that you seem to be missing.

Did you know that Peter Daszak, one of the "reputable international scientists" you speak of who helped investigate and author that report was himself the project lead for the US funded gain of function research at the WIV?

Who would be more inclined or in a better position to cover that up than him?

>>loveis+(OP)
There were around 20 scientist who went to Wuhan with WHO. From all over the world, with actual relevant qualifications, specialised enough in virology to form a meaningful opinion on this subject.

Today they are all being harrassed by anonymous internet users because their conclusion didn't follow some conspiratorial paranoid anti-China story. What does that tell you?

There are people out there who happily make up stuff to fit a certain story. And people who will happily repeat it.

You can bury your head in ignorance and let yourself be manipulated by the likes of Steve Bannon or you can choose to listen to people, who actually have qualifications in the field and who have a meaningful reputation to loose.