The Lunacy of Not Knowing

Certain things will never be known. Who killed JFK? Where is Jimmy Hoffa? Was there a King Arthur? Who was Jack the Ripper? Where is the Ark of the Covenant? When was Jesus born? What happens when we die?

That sort of thing drives some people crazy. They can't stand it. Not knowing something eats at them, and so they desperately want to skip ahead and read who done it. Or they make up their own story. It's easy to do because no one can disprove you. For once in they’re rotten life, they will be “right,” and no one will ever take that away from them.

We can now add the Origins of COVID to the list — a big unsolved mystery that no one will ever know. The evidence is long gone, which means anyone can write their own story. And they will because they can.

But I have been marveling at those who don't. Scientists, mainly, are exceedingly comfortable with the unknown. It's their job.

As precious little evidence shows, two distinct lineages have been found at the ground zero of COVID. The genetics of the virus extracted from the earliest victims show that there was already a fork in ancestry. A generation had gone by.

For the “lab leak” theory to hold, then, there would need to have been TWO lab leaks—by separate individuals and/or on separate occasions—and furthermore, they would have had to hold their sneezes until reaching the one “wet market” from which all the other infections emanated. BTW, there are four such markets in Wuhan, but none of the early victims had any association with the other three.

Of course, there is a microscopic chance that a lab leaker leaked one strain and then another, likely on the same day but at the same place, or maybe even this was the purpose, but we will never know. Infinitely more likely is that two animals (or more!) were shipped from a place where the virus had already jumped, and it was the second generation that they carried. But we will never know that either.

There are infinite possibilities for the Origin of COVID, and now there are an infinite number plus one.

One thing for certain, though, is that there are two types of people in this world—those who are comfortable with the unknowns and those who are driven crazy by them.