Here on the High Wire we have been dancing around this.

We've listened to both sides.

I've been free to talk to scientists

to say they believe it's natural,

but every time we talk to a scientist

and says it's man-made, we lose a YouTube channel

or we lose a Facebook channel.

And frankly, I don't care anymore

because most of those channels are all gone.

From here on out, the High Wire is changing course.

We are no longer going to vacillate between whether or not

this is natural or man-made.

My assumption now in the work that we've done in the science

that we've seen and shown you throughout this year

and much of the science I cannot show you

that is being privately handed to us

anonymously from world-renowned scientists,

I am now under the belief that this is a man-made virus.

Now, sure, we could be wrong and that's how science works,

but I'm tired of wasting any more energy

because I think we have more important things to focus on.

And now we've got to start talking about a world

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