Re-using our introduction to December 2023's "Researcher Who Developed Chinese Covid Vaccine Probably Thrown Off Roof":
For the last 3 1/2 years I've been keeping an eye open for hints that the lab leak (notice no one is talking about pangolins or bat soup any more?) was known to the NIAID/gain-of-function/state security organs gang before September 2019. Not searching it out but trying to be aware of the dates being pushed back to the fall and summer of 2019....
From The Hill, March 28, 2021:
Redfield says he thinks COVID-19 began spreading in Wuhan in September or October
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said in an interview that aired Sunday that he thinks COVID-19 began spreading in Wuhan in September or October of 2019.
“If I was to guess this virus started transmitting somewhere in September, October in Wuhan,” Redfield told Sanjay Gupta for a CNN special report.
“That’s my own view,” he added. “It’s only an opinion. I’m allowed to have opinions now.”....
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Our focus/purpose is not the 'proximal origin', raccoon dog or Biosafety Level 4 Laboratory, but rather the date the virus was circulating.
Possibly related, July 31's: Covid: China's Purchases Of PCR Test Kits Soared Months Before The First Cases Were Announced