Wish it was a proper academic paper with citations--kinda annoying having to track down its sources.

Don't have time at the moment, but I did grab the paper which shows that the virus could have been present in the US as early as December 13-16 2019 on the west coast:

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1004/6012472

and this NIH study which also showed earlier cases than had been officially confirmed:

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/74/4/584/6294073

The US is directly responsible for 10 of millions of deaths related to COVID. Richest, most powerful country in the world lets diseases run rampant everyday.

If COVID did arise in the US then that revolution is bitter. It doesn’t offer much in the way of solace for me personally. Hopefully, it would help to radicalize others though.

Is anyone surprised?

I'm not convinced of the Fort Derrick lab leak theory either, but the the presence of Covid prior to the Wuhan outbreak at least eliminates the proximity to the Wuhan virology/biodefense labs as indicating a lab leak there.

Wasn’t it also found in Spanish waste water as early as spring of that year

I'm fairly certain I had it in November of 2019. My whole family was sick with what we figured was a bad flu, but it left my wife with more significant respiratory issues on top of her asthma. On top of that I somehow avoided getting Covid until 2022, despite several outbreaks at work to the point of literally working alongside people who later test positive. It was kind of incredible at the time, but if I already had antibodies then that would make a lot more sense.

There's not much of a way for it to start in China in Nov and then by the end of the month it ends up in bumfuck rural America. I'm sure we had the shit brewing for months before it was detected on the other side of the world.

investigate fort detrick