“That’s speculation.”
It’s at least speculation.
This virus is just as likely to have crawled out of the fetid sewers of Wuhan as to have been created in a lab. Probably more so as I’m certain those are the filthiest places on the planet with organic material from nearly every known species of animal.
And it is certainly not a bioweapon. It’s too weak and too indiscriminate for weaponization.
I say it’s a product of the natural world, but from unnaturally filthy conditions.
It does seem to strike the right balance between killing / incapacitating people and not being so virulent that it wipes out too many of the hosts too quickly.
It could also be a bio-weapon in development and accidentally released too soon.
The most plausible theory I read (to this layman) is it is a SARS vaccine that was being tested on Chinese test subjects and it wasn't ready for prime time.
But I'm still not convinced that Brennan and Clapper didn't have one of their agents in Wuhan drop a vile of the disease on the street knowing full well how it would spread around the globe and give a boost to communism.