Coronavirus is very definitely a Chinese phenomenon, and if it were fashioned as a bioweapon, would it not first show up in China? For all the “openness” of commerce in China, there are still many facets of daily life there that are very much closed to outsiders, and biological experimentation, especially in connection with weaponization of such biological agents, is a major case in point.
That Russian “specialist” is talking with his eating mouth, because if he were talking with his rectal orifice, he would be making much more sense.
I don’t think it makes sense to clutch pearls over tabloid journalism.