When President Trump suggested last week that the coronavirus might have originated in China’s Wuhan lab, he was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. But considering how little we know about COVID-19, where it originated, and how it became a global pandemic, as well as China’s repeated attempts to suppress information and lie about the virus, it’s essential to ask: When it comes to the coronavirus, is there any such thing as a wrong question?

Here’s what we do know: China lies. A lot. In fact, a recent Department of Homeland Security report concluded that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s communist regime hid the early spread of the coronavirus so it could hoard medical equipment in preparation for the outbreak while the rest of the world sat unprepared. We also know that the numbers China have released have been far from accurate.