Could they be preparing us for something?

That's a bombshell! There goes the the market-pangolin theory.

“The novel coronavirus had existed long before" it was found at the market, he said.

He doesn't say much so what does 'existed long before' mean? The market was the main explanation for how a Yunan bat virus pops up in Wuhan 1200 miles away. Now what?

George Gao (Gao Fu) was one of the people Lipkin met in his four day trip to China (along with the Li Kechiang)

Lipkin does make this comment on an hour-long podcast interview when he was sick. (If you listen to podcasts while your exercising or something, then it's got some crazy self-incriminating things in it.)

‘There’s going to be some stuff that’s going to come out that’s going to show more insight into the origins of the outbreak. Some people are going to say this is evidence that they (CCP) withheld information - I’m gonna push back and say ‘No, that’s not the case.’