Anyone paying attention at the time had this information. There is an incredible rewriting of history being attempted. There was a lot of sound evidence that covid started in november or earlier in china and that it leaked from a lab (based on the lockdown and sequestering of lab personnel in december). Any one pointing out those facts in jan/feb/mar was decried as a nut, racist and conspiracy theorist. The earliest random serologic testing in the washington and oregon area plainly showed that covid had been circulating for some time.
Somehow people also seem to like to forget that non-covid SARS leaked out of the beijing bio-lab at least twice resulting in deaths: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/
Which they attempted to cover up as well.