You've been told, again and again, that the SARS-Cov-2 virus did not emerge from a major coronavirus laboratory in China that just happens to sit a few miles from the first known outbreak.

Who knows, maybe it's true.

Meanwhile, scientists at that very same laboratory, less than two years before the pandemic, were jonesing to make coronaviruses a lot more infectious and then release them into colonies of wild bats:

Chinese scientists wanted to genetically engineer coronaviruses that were more infectious to humans and then conduct experiments on live bats about 18 months before the first COVID-19 cases emerged — but a US Department of Defence agency rejected the funding proposal, leaked documents reveal.

Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were planning to genetically enhance airborne coronaviruses and release aerosols containing "novel chimeric spike proteins" among cave bats in Yunnan, China, according to the 2018 proposal submitted to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

They also planned to alter coronaviruses to infect humans more easily by introducing "human-specific cleavage sites" to bat coronaviruses.

Ah, okay. So the scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology wanted to ramp up the infectiousness of coronaviruses and also spray those same enhanced viruses into wild bat populations and then suddenly less than 100 weeks later a highly infectious coronavirus explodes out of Wuhan—but just totally by coincidence, you guys, absolutely in no way are the two things at all connected.

Maybe one day we'll figure out where that mysterious virus emerged from! Probably not though.