Mehdi Hasan on COVID Bioweapon: Leans deny

The claim: COVID-19 was deliberately engineered or made as a bioweapon.

2023-02-26: “The simple reason why so many people weren’t keen to discuss the ‘lab leak’ *theory* is because it was originally conflated by the right with ‘Chinese bio weapon’ conspiracies and continues to be conflated by the right with anti-Fauci conspiracies.” source
2023-02-27: “Also: ask yourself why so many people on the right, lay people, were obsessed with this one specific aspect of the science of Covid, which by the view is still not the majority view amongst scientists? Was it because of their scientific curiosity? Lol,” source
2023-02-27: “It’s hard to have a good faith disagreement about a major issue if the issue itself has been hijacked by bad faith folks,” source
2023-02-28: “The 'Bad People' wanted to use 'lab leak' to distract from Trumpian incompetence, & push racist messages & insane conspiracies.” source
2023-06-28: “Now, does that mean the lab leak theory is therefore false? No. Of course it remains possible that Covid leaked out of a lab in Wuhan. I am not saying it didn’t, nor are the scientists who think it had a natural origin and came out of the wet market.” source