This is light. I got banned on r/pic, r/mildlyinteresting and a few other big subs because I said at the beginning that covid19 was likely a lab leak, before we are allowed to consider the possibility. And that was based on my first hand experience in the non-existing safety culture in Chinese biolabs. Reddit mods are the most power tripping people online.

It's what the journal editors and NIH say in public. In the actual foot soldier circles, for postdocs, young APs and pharma scientists, lab leak has been a majority possibility since 2019