Or maybe the people in DC, including the DoD, don't want to acknowledge the bug is a bioweapon, possibly an incomplete or unfinished one, who's presence outside the Wuhan lab could either be purposeful, or negligence in disposing of lab carcases, BECAUSE they know admitting that would mean admitting we, and other nations, haven't retaliated to a WMD attack.
Or it could be worse, and the financial ties between the Wuhan lab and Fauci could implicate people in the US in assisting in the development of this bug using US tax dollars funneled to the Chinese CDC.
DC has lots of reasons to deny this is a bioweapon, and most of those are based on saving face or preserving the current power structures, not because they think this thing was a natural bug that just popped up in Wuhan one day.
Or it could be worse, and the financial ties between the Wuhan lab and Fauci could implicate people in the US in assisting in the development of this bug using US tax dollars funneled to the Chinese CDC.
DC has lots of reasons to deny this is a bioweapon, and most of those are based on saving face or preserving the current power structures, not because they think this thing was a natural bug that just popped up in Wuhan one day.