RE: Doesn’t mean the virus didn’t come out of a lab.
If we believe what the scientists in this article said, then the answer is YES.
What disturbed me was the immediate attempt by the Chinese officials to sell the idea that the virus originated in the Wuhan wet market. They even produced PSA videos and news articles showing people eating bat heads to make their case to the world.
More complete patient tracking later showed that the virus was detected in patients that had not been to the market first and then appeared at patients from the market. When the government in charge of managing a situation starts putting out propaganda before getting the facts it makes concerned people suspicious and destroys any credibility they might have had.
Maybe its just a coincidence that the only P4 bio laboratory built in China is less than a mile from the site of the first infections but its understandable that people would speculate on this. I don’t think this is the end of the controversy.