# What conspiracy theory about the Pandemic do you think is plausible? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 24, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-conspiracy-theory-about-the-pandemic-do-you-think-is-plausible/942789 "2021-05-24T14:27:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 51
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-conspiracy-theory-about-the-pandemic-do-you-think-is-plausible/942789/51 "2021-06-05T03:55:41Z")
I speculated some variation of this all along. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether or not it is true. > [@A theory I saw about how COVID may have escaped from the Wuhan lab](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-theory-i-saw-about-how-covid-may-have-escaped-from-the-wuhan-lab/933082): > > I’m not saying I believe COVID was made in a lab, although we do all know that it was being researched in and around Wuhan and this is a not-unlikely IMNSHO theory as to how the virus may have escaped. Here goes. This person believes that a lab worker may have attempted to supplement their income by selling sacrificed lab animals to a wet market vendor or other butcher (without, of course, telling them the truth about where the animals came from) and things went from there. It sounds as plaus… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-conspiracy-theory-about-the-pandemic-do-you-think-is-plausible/942789)._