Hursty yeah I did think that as well, pretty far fetched to attribute this to a plan to drop covid 10 years later
Although it was back in 2014 that the NIH awarded a grant to the U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance to study the risk of the future emergence of coronaviruses from bats, and from this money the gain of function research in Wuhan was funded.
So there could have been talks already leading up to the 2014 funds being awarded, which could mean the timeline isn’t actually that far-fetched.