Commentary It only took a year, but the always-plausible theory that the Chinese coronavirus originated with a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has finally gone from conspiracy to credible among our Ruling Class. What changed? The most remarkable thing about this episode is how little there is in known new evidence to have effectuated this seismic shift, making this the most damning episode for our betters since Russiagate. We’ve long known that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from the earliest days of the outbreak had done everything it could to prevent an investigation into the origins of the pandemic—stonewalling, silencing, and obfuscating—and then of course sought to cynically exploit the pandemic while the world suffered. We’ve long known that WIV engaged in research into bat-based coronaviruses, and in dangerous gain-of-function exercises. We’ve known since at least five months ago, when the still-Trump-led State Department put out a …