[adorno]

People also forget that there was great concern at the time that this may have been an engineered virus deliberately ‘let out’.

The 'engineering' was for 'gain a function'. The original Covid virus was engineered by nature or God. Gain a function did not create the virus. It's kind of like a human who wants to gain a more powerful function, such as a body builder who becomes stronger and bigger. That human would have gained a function that he wasn't born with.

Only God (or nature,if you will) can create a new species. Adaptations are not about new species.

[Jamestown1630]

I didn’t suggest that it was ‘created’ out of whole cloth. (And the term is ‘gain OF function’.)

A more dangerous version of an existing virus can certainly be engineered. That’s why there is supposed to be so much oversight regarding this type of biotechnology.