If you repeat a lie often enough, even the at first reluctant will start to believe it. That's how the propaganda machine typically works.
The more these claims based on minimal new evidence are repeated, the more it seems the virus may have potentially been released by nefarious actors as an attack on the population.
It's not implausable for an entity with knowledge and access to a virus being studied, to release a copy of it in the environment surrounding the lab while maintaining a high degree of deniability.
If it is so, then the question that remains is, much like in the case of Nordstream, which nation state has the most incentive to carry it out?
The more these claims based on minimal new evidence are repeated, the more it seems the virus may have potentially been released by nefarious actors as an attack on the population.
It's not implausable for an entity with knowledge and access to a virus being studied, to release a copy of it in the environment surrounding the lab while maintaining a high degree of deniability.
If it is so, then the question that remains is, much like in the case of Nordstream, which nation state has the most incentive to carry it out?