When an animal sourced outbreak happens. They usually find the source animal and virus and get the genome within a few months. We still don't have that, nor does it seem anyone is pursuing finding an animal source. It 100% came from a lab. 50% chance it wasn't a leak, but a test.
Publishers are trying to take Sci-Hub off the internet, but archivists are working to make the project uncensorable. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/activists-mobilize-fight-censorship-and-save-open-science
Tim pool does seem to have his own instance...
@LukeAlmighty I don't know why he doesn't talk about it though.