We know all this but the Chinese culture ISN’T going to stop eating dogs, bats, whatever else can go in their “chow mein.”
2007! And Trump ignored the warning! There’s blood on his hands! Impeach! /s
Wet markets are not as dangerous as a BSL-4 lab located in Wuhan.
It’s why, while I wouldn’t put engineering something nefarious past the Chinese, the simpler explanation is that it’s just the result of natural origin combined with typical bureaucratic ineptitude, obfuscation, lying and opportunism.
Occam’s razor- the widely predicted emergence of something similar to a previous disease in that area, which is kind of like an earthquake in California, not an ‘if’ but a ‘when - or something engineered in a lab? I don’t consider the second option impossible, merely not necessary.
If I was Xi, I’d be working on a virus that targeted non-Chinese.
SAME VIRUS.