In medieval time they would catapult bodies with smallpox over caste walls as bioweapons, those diseases were "natural" too, but they were still weapons! The Chinese now have a prime example of how to shut our economy down! The next virus will show in this country without warning, in multiple locations, this was just the first salvo!

Bottom-line the US starting 8 wars based on lies to support asinine non-regime changes; while using spent uranium weapons. Similar to the phosphorous weapons used on Palestinian civilians by Israel.

All tolled no one can forgive using the media to void such memories from historical fact. Any country that reeks havoc over half a continent, with absolutely no accountability even to International law/courts HAS no right to give lip-service in accusing any other regime.
How convenient it must be not to keep a death count of civilians lost in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and African countries.

Best example of how to white-wash evil deeds is to relabel war victims from this 8 countries to simply migrants (trying to jump a queue )?
Same as the shooting down of an civilian plane--Iran did it-that's --evil ---but---when US deliberately shot down an Iranian civilian plane --not one word of indignation or wrongdoing. Can't play both wrong and right on the any evil act.

"Meanwhile, journalists would be wise to remember just how almost any statement or explanation offered by the Chinese government and its paid scientist should lack any credibility or acceptance minus independent, international investigation."

It seems to me that this exact same sentence could be applied to the current denizens of our own White House. Those who live in glass houses...

It would be an odd coincidence for a new corona virus to spawn at a wet market only about twenty miles away from a place where people were studying corona viruses in bats named the "Wuhan Institute of Virology." I don't see how anyone can say they know this didn't leak out of the lab. One thing's certain--if this did come from the lab, the Chinese government would NEVER, EVER admit it.

Senator Cotton is right—this needs to be investigated and there is probably plenty of blame to be laid at the foot of the PRC for what has transpired.
But why is this even a focus right now? Spending time on this now feels a little like watching a couple outside their still-burning home arguing over whose fault it is. We have much greater present-day priorities.