> None of this adds up to positive evidence of any variation of the "lab leak" theory but given that there is no alternative theory that holds up to serious scr

> None of this adds up to positive evidence of any variation of the "lab leak" theory but given that there is no alternative theory that holds up to serious scrutiny or doesn't have serious flaws or unanswered questions, it has to stay in the running. There is a very strong alternative theory that the virus evolved in human-animal interactions in fur farming. China is the biggest fur producer outside the EU, which results in very similar incentives to not properly investigate. Denmark culled its whole mink population after human-mink transmission and the evolution of the cluster 5 variant [2]. [1] https://www.republik.ch/2021/06/05/herr-drosten-woher-kam-dieses-virus https://www.republik.ch/2021/06/05/herr-drosten-woher-kam-di... [German] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_5