Wait a minute – wasn't this supposed to be a conspiracy theory? Weren't we not allowed to even question whether Covid could have originated from a shoddy Chinese lab producing Covid-19-like viruses located just a few miles from the first public outbreak?

Wasn't that called "racist" or "xenophobic" or something?

Well guess what – the U.S. Energy Department has just concluded, based on "new intelligence," that the pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.

The Energy Department, mind you, oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research, so its conclusion here is significant.

U.S. officials declined to give details on the "new intelligence" that led the Energy Department to change its position. China, meanwhile, has stifled investigations, disputed that the virus could have leaked from one of its labs, and suggested that Covid actually emerged from outside China. Because commies gonna commie.

So ... previously, people were ostracized and digitally disappeared for suggesting what the U.S. federal government is now concluding to be true.

"Conspiracy theories" are coming true at an astounding rate, no?