Bat virus escapes from a bio lab, the Chicoms disappear the people who know the most about the outbreak and draft a law in a province (where the outbreak didn’t start) stating that dogs aren’t food, or maybe they’re food, but more like househd food, not livestock food.
I don’t care if people in China eat dogs, or bats, or those adorable pineapple looking anteater things. I do care if people eating bats in China means my kids can’t go to school, or the Chinese government not being able to handle a bat virus in a bio lab shuts down the world.
I agree the market hypothesis is embarrassing, but it would be a lot more embarrassing if people thought it ultimately came from a hoity toity lab rather than already semillegal animal markets the government barely had control over so the first theory is the one the CCP and their proxies in the West like Twitter/Google etc are pushing.