[Jamestown1630]

So, do you think this is something that just ‘escaped’?

[grey_whiskers]

Could be: China's usual quality control problems, with containment hardware at the lab. Or cost-cutting on materials, corner-cutting on procedures. Or the cleaning crew taking a couple of infected animals to the wet market...or carcasses.

Or someone with an axe to grind taking out a couple of test tubes of something nasty and releasing them in public.

But remember...China started going batsh!t crazy over this, three weeks ago. Not just back when there were 200 fatalities. But back when there were ~200 cases.

What did they know? (China's always been "meh" about the loss of human life: there have been fairly recent wars / famines / plagues that have killed 10 or 20 *million*. And that was _before_ the Commies.)