In one of Fauci's emails one of his colleagues brought to his attention that the genome sequence of the virus didn't look natural. Without saying speciifically, implying man made.
Few months later in April 2020 fauci publicly dismissed the lab leak theory and on the contrary said there's evidence of natural origins.
The same science that is currently turning the narrative to lab leak theory in 2021 is the same exact science that was made known to Fauci in his emails early 2020, that he publicly dismissed multiple times.
If not incompetence or cover up then what?
Mind u, the group of scientists that wouldn't let the lab leak hypothesis go were getting their studies dismissed, taken off internet and scrubbed off social media as disinformation, while letting the actual unproven (likely the real disinformation) natural origin theory fly.