This is from Feb 7, 2020.

ABC: On Wednesday, a local health commission official in Hubei described the outbreak as not just a disaster, but a "man-made" one, quoting conversations with doctors in Wuhan.

The post received 340,000 likes on the Twitter-like platform Weibo before disappearing.

It spread further in private groups on WeChat before being censored.

It wasn't just censored from China, but the entire collective of the world's mainstream media, including the one above that reported this.

The concerted effort to suppress any suggestion that Covid was a lab-leak and scream conspiracy theorist at those who did is the most disturbing aspect of Covid - in a high-class list of disturbing aspects.

With weird behaviour, you've got to look at the pecuniary interests. Who benefits out of this co-ordinated, aggressive action?

In this case it's the CCP.

On the surface that seems inexplicable. Why have the networks from CNN to Fox to The Guardian to all of them, knowingly spread misinformation to support the CCP?

But if you switch CCP to Totalitarianism it makes more sense. If you switch Totalitarianism to Centralized power, it makes perfect sense. Global organizations like centralizing power - the more the better.

The media instinctively doesn't like things that may lead people to question this gathering up of power model. Their mantra, which is exactly the same as the CCP's btw, is: Listen to the Experts. Then do what you're told. Or else...