So, it started this week as we got some new information through US intelligence. There were those who got ill and hospitalised in Wuhan way earlier than had previously been declared.

We still don't know what they were hospitalised with, but it's worth a question or two, and so it has turned out to be.

Dr Anthony Fauci said several weeks ago at an event that was not widely covered that he still didn’t know to any level of satisfaction where Covid originated from, and he was happy with any investigation that tried to dig that answer up. And further, he hadn't ruled out that it came from the Wuhan lab.

That bit was a smoking gun of sorts, because the lab is a two-pronged thing.

Did it come from the lab as opposed to the wild? And the more conspiratorial aspect, if it came from the lab, was it deliberately let out?

The Republicans by weeks end want Fauci sacked because he gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the lab. He swears it was for genuine research and not looking into what they call ‘gain of function.’ The funding was eventually halted.

The Chinese media, by the way, have gone off at this and Fauci is now public enemy number one. All of this eventually led to the President saying we need another look.

The irony of all of this, as I pointed out earlier this week, is that Trump was already there about a year back.  

The real question is how on Earth has it taken us so long to get to this point? Why have we been so fantastically complacent in wanting to get to the bottom of this?

The WHO report was farcical, but then it was always going to be farcical. It's the result of a world that refuses to call out those who aren't up for much. The WHO fits that category. Their report was either woeful or a jack-up, either way it answered nothing.

And it's taken the ensuing months of silence and vacuum to finally get a few people wound up enough to get some proper wheels turning.

The Australians deserve credit and respect for, at least, starting this. But what a price they have paid, and what a crime to have let them pay it as the world has twiddled its thumbs.

This is a crisis the likes of which we have never seen, and we have seemed happy to not get to the bottom of it, or potentially hold someone to account.

At least, at last, in that respect, the week ends on a more positive note than it started.