But the argument that it could have leaked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology or a sister lab in Wuhan has become considerably stronger than it was a year ago, when the screaming was so loud that it drowned out serious discussion. …I had been skeptical of the “lab leak” theory because animal spillover is such an obvious answer. Genetics has proven that almost every disease mankind has faced jumped from animals: bubonic plague from rodents, measles probably from cows, whooping cough maybe from dogs, and so on. Also, the leak idea was just too conveniently conspiratorial. …But the Occam’s Razor argument — what’s the likeliest explanation, animal or lab?

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2021 17:47 UTC