Now that just about everybody else has done so, the head of the WHO has also now reversed his rhetoric on the lab leak origin:
“There was a premature push [to rule out that theory],” he said. The WHO chief, who is an immunologist, stressed that he himself had previously worked as a lab technician, “and lab accidents happen”.
“It’s common. I have seen it happening,” he said, stressing that “checking what happened, especially in our labs, is important”.
“We need information, direct information on what the situation of these labs was before, at the start of the pandemic.”
I find it disgusting that this very plausible theory on the origin of the most damaging global pandemic in a century, was so ferociously smeared and censored as an 'extremist conspiracy theory' for so long.
Plenty of people who should have known better participated in this for political reasons.