Yeah that and the "vaping lung disease" that showed up (and was especially prevalent around ft detrick!) and then disappeared, plus the frequent anecdotes of people who were seriously fucking sick in 2019, is why I've believed the ft Detrick lab leak theory since i first heard it.

It's the most likely source imo. Like I really think it's a lot more likely for one of the most virulent diseases ever discovered to have leaked out of a biolab which literally studied coronaviruses than for it to have just appeared out of nowhere. And wow, here's a lab that worked on those where it could have just leaked in the wastewater for literally a year straight