>But none of the research points to a lab leak - this claim is not only unsupported, but is undermined, by all available evidence. A smoking gun isn't evidence in and of itself, but when you find one unexpectedly, the discovery of which powerful entities are trying to suppress, it should incite your curiosity. From the 2021 Vanity Fair article: The leaked grant proposal struck a number of scientists and researchers as significant for one reason. One distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2’s genetic code is a furin cleavage site that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells. That is just the feature that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had proposed to engineer in the 2018 grant proposal.

While it seems likely that no segment of the US government paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to >bake it up in a lab, on purpose, it is very clear that the lab in question received significant grant funding specifically related to SARS-CoV 2 from the US National Institutes of Health. That funding was suspended in July of 2023 for, wait for it..."failing to provide documentation related to concerns over biosafety protocol violations at the facility that has faced questions for years over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic." It's also clear that during 2020 and most of 2021 of the outbreak, Fauci, the NIH, and the CDC misrepresented our relationship with the Wuhan lab, and failed to disclose when they were informed that gain of function of the virus in the lab had increased tenfold. They were informed of this in April of 2018, but continued funding the research anyway.

I mean, my kids are all over 18 and have their own guns, and worse, they don't even care about the no fun league

I'm pretty sure kids holding guns WERE the problem...