Yuri Deigin published an in-depth technical analysis of the origins of SARS-COV-2 in "Medium" on April 22, 2020: Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research. It was curious that he decided to publish his analysis in Medium rather than a peer-reviewed journal and it was also curious that his work didn't generate a big outburst of criticism and get "cancelled." It was published and then just seemed to have quietly died.
The fact that the deeper you dive into the research activities of coronavirologists over the past 15–20 years, the more you realize that creating chimeras like CoV2 was commonplace in their labs. And CoV2 is an obvious chimera (though not nesessarily a lab-made one), which is based on the ancestral bat strain RaTG13, in which the receptor binding motif (RBM) in its spike protein is replaced by the RBM from a pangolin strain, and in addition, a small but very special stretch of 4 amino acids is inserted, which creates a furin cleavage site that, as virologists have previously established, significantly expands the “repertoire” of the virus in terms of whose cells it can penetrate.
For the record, the “wet markets” in China and elsewhere in the 3rd world have long been acknowledged to be a perfect vector for pandemics. This was true when I was a grad student in the early 90’s and it remains true today.
“Food safety” is a national security issue that is rarely acknowledged publicly nor is it talked about much.
There are articles from as early as 2015 in Nature that Wuhan Institute of Virology was creating COVID chimeras and doing gain of function experiments. When the U.S. made such research illegal, the majority of the research and the funding was then directed to Wuhan. You can read a half-dozen articles in Nature about COVID research going on at the Wuhan lab.