Or it could be a bioweapon development vs. experiment.
Whether it was developed as a bioweapon, or not, is important of course, however, it is starting to appear that it may have been USED as a bioweapon, to infect the rest of the world, after China realized it had been bitten. Open source investigations such as we are doing here may be the only way these stories ever advance, so keep up the good work.