It can come from the lab and also not be man-made. They had bats there because they are natural hosts to the coronaviruses they were studying.
Coronaviruses have jumped to humans before, so it’s not impossible for it to happen again when the bats were regularly handled by careless or lazy lab techs while feeding or cleaning cages.
SARS1 and MERS are more deadly, but less infectious, but the Chinese didn’t know that yet, just that the new bug on the block was more infectious.
Watch that video. They do an excellent job showing you it can’t be from animals, it’s synthetic
This is true, but then why did it take so long to get the viral DNA structure out? Either way, if they were studying it they should have had this information. Which actually just leads thought towards to malintent end of the spectrum as to its origin and purpose.
I suppose it could have come from the lab, been naturally occurring, and unknown to the researchers all at the same time. But harder to believe that since the origin hypothesis suggests the purpose of the lab was precisely to study SARC-COV-2 viruses in bats. Then again, just trying to be fair, the lab may have been closed for the Lunar New Year leaving few people around to raise the red flag. Recall, this was being called a spike in pneumonia cases during the first many weeks. At least outside of Wuhan, they didn't know what to look for.