If I were going to create a bioweapon, I would make sure it wasn’t traced. There was a researcher at that lab who saw the results of splicing sars and coronavirus and how dangerous it was and noticed that the coronavirus in horseshoe bats was 96.2% similar.
Why not inject horseshoe bat coronavirus into an intermediate animal needed to then transmit to humans. One can accomplish mutating the virus for humans naturally and have plausible deniability?
It is a heck of a weapon. A weapin of mass economic destruction. Low fatality rate, super high infection rate, lives for long time on surfaces. Don’t kill your enemies, make them poor and work for you.
Why bother with the intemediary, and just inject the 2015 hybrid into Wuhan lab bats, knowing they are going out the back door?