I agree that’s a high possibility totally, I just don’t see how we can exclude the other possibility as confidently as everyone else seems to.
Also, I think doing active research on something that can jump species and is highly contagious in a city would massively increase your risk of it jumping species in that city. That risk is increased if the lab is known for poor controls and was flagged as a risk, as the one in Wuhan was in the us cables.
Additionally if a researcher did get infected, there is a high chance that they would be asymptomatic and wouldn’t even know it was them.
The only “proof” that it wasn’t from the lab is the dna analysis, but that only proves that the research wasn’t altering the genome / that there was bio-engineering, there is still loads of research you can do without playing with the genome.
Also, I think doing active research on something that can jump species and is highly contagious in a city would massively increase your risk of it jumping species in that city. That risk is increased if the lab is known for poor controls and was flagged as a risk, as the one in Wuhan was in the us cables.
Additionally if a researcher did get infected, there is a high chance that they would be asymptomatic and wouldn’t even know it was them.
The only “proof” that it wasn’t from the lab is the dna analysis, but that only proves that the research wasn’t altering the genome / that there was bio-engineering, there is still loads of research you can do without playing with the genome.