====== China's supposed coverup of COVID19 outbreak ======
Anti-China narratives regarding COVID19 range from a benign examining the timeline of the outbreak through to conspiracy theories about lab leaks and bioweaponry. 

===== Lab leak theory =====
==== Scientific opinion ====

=== Not ruling it out ===
"Scientists don’t have enough evidence about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 to rule out the lab-leak hypothesis, or to prove the alternative — that the virus has a natural origin." ([[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01529-3 | Nature, Maxmen and Mallapaty, 2021]]) (web).

=== Refuting ===

Scientist on the ground dismisses theory: [[https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/australian-scientist-the-sole-foreign-researcher-at-the-wuhan-lab-speaks-out-20210628-p584sv.html | Scientists 'on the ground' dismiss the theory (Anderson, 2021)]]\\
Scientific report - [[ https://zenodo.org/record/5075888#.YOzEUDNR2Hv|The Origins of SARS-CoV-2: A Critical Review, Holmes, Goldstein, Rasmussen, Robertson, Crits-Christoph, Wertheim, Anthony, Barclay, Boni, Maciej, Doherty, Farrar, Geoghegan, Jiang, Leibowitz, Neil, Skern, Weiss, Worobey, Andersen, Garry, Rambaut, 2021)]] 

==== Advocating ====
=== Political propaganda ===

[[https://twitter.com/i/status/1410257138757341192 | Erin O'Toole ]] (Twitter video). [[|Review of this video.]]