If This Were a Jury Trial, the Evidence Would Already Be Far Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

One of the most infuriating things about the entire Covid debate is that there are still people who, for whatever reason, continue to insist that we do not know where Covid came from. I am not talking about Fauci and his associates, who actively pushed the cover up. I mean all…

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) July 29, 2026

… the people here who still repeat this line as though the evidence is evenly balanced. It is not.

We may not know in which specific Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory the experiment was conducted, the exact date on which it occurred, or precisely who carried the virus out of the lab and into the community. But there is no doubt whatsoever that Covid came out of a lab and anyone with a functioning cerebral cortex knows it. Continuing to pretend otherwise only serves the people who created Covid and covered it up.

I have written extensively about this for the past six years, but here is a quick reminder of some of the most obvious and incontrovertible reasons we know that Covid was in a lab.

First, the virus appeared on the doorstep of the only lab in the world conducting precisely the kinds of experiments capable of producing a virus like the Covid virus. The Proximal Origin crew tried to obscure this by claiming that such research was being conducted everywhere. It was not. The work was being at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and only there.

Second, that same lab mysteriously removed its entire database of virus sequences in September 2019. The database has never reappeared.

Third, Covid emerged ready to infect human beings like wildfire. Natural animal viruses do not do that. They require time to adapt to human cells. Covid, by contrast, was extraordinarily well adapted for human transmission from the moment it appeared, precisely because it had been engineered for that purpose.

Fourth, Covid is the only known SARS-related coronavirus with a furin cleavage site. No natural SARS-like virus has ever been found with one. That feature also happens to enhance the virus’s ability to infect human cells.

Fifth, the fraudulent Proximal Origin paper argued that Covid could not be manmade because Covid’s receptor binding domain, the part of the virus that docks onto human cells, was not designed for the tightest possible binding. That was a misdirection. The relevant question is not whether it had the strongest bind, but whether it had the optimal bind for human transmission. Covid did. Even more damningly, Fauci grantee Ralph Baric had explained this to Chinese researchers (and later lied about it), i.e. how to design a human-optimized receptor binding domain, exactly like the one found in Covid.

Sixth, Fauci’s other big coronavirus grantee, Peter Daszak, working with the Wuhan lab, submitted a proposal in 2018 that was a blueprint for creating Covid-like viruses, including the above mentioned furin cleavage site. American authorities refused to fund it because they considered the work far too dangerous. But the Chinese participants already had the blueprint in their possession. The existence of the blueprint was concealed from the public until a whistleblower leaked it in 2021. At that point, for all practical purposes, the question of Covid’s origin was settled.

I could go on and on. But if this were a jury trial, the evidence would already be far beyond a reasonable doubt. Anyone who continues pretending otherwise is doing an enormous disservice to the truth and helping the people responsible.