Hi Jim, did you read the links I provided in the essay? I don't frame it as any kind of slam dunk and I state in the piece that I am still a bit agnostic but am steadily leaning toward the lab leak theory. Also check this recent paper that seems pretty compelling: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.18.512756v1

Regardless of its origins is pretty clear that the responses to the virus (lockdowns and vaccines, in particular) caused most of the harm, and that is a debate that has barely begun.