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I currently believe that COVID was being developed as a bio-weapon in a lab in Wusan. I further believe a worker who had access to test animals smuggled some out and sold them at the wet market in Wusan.

My original thought that China did this on purpose to spread the virus around the world was wrong. After almost two years China is being hurt financially by the virus (both in illness and financially).

The lock down measured taken by most western nations curtailed trade which in effect slowed and even stopped a flow of money into China.

China needs a good flow of money or it’s entire financial house of cards will collapse.

(As why someone would steal infected animals my theory is they were not getting paid and had family to feed).

After doing some research I learn that most businesses are owned by members of the CCP and it is not un-common for businesses to simply not pay employees.

I currently believe that COVID was being developed as a bio-weapon in a lab in Wuhan"

You know, you really don't need the bio-weapon part of this theory to explain any of the known facts.

Gain of function (GOF) research, before it was banned in the US and outsourced to China, was openly debated in and outside of the government, at the same time reviving the 1918 pandemic flu virus from frozen corpses in the high Arctic was being debated.

I think it's quite probable that SARS CoV 2 originated as a result of GOF experiments, but the addition of Chinese bioweapon development to a pretty straightforward theory complicates a search for the truth greatly.

And, it's a pretty crappy bioweapon, if that's what it is.

Expert: Chinese Scientists Sell Lab Animals as Meat on the Black Market

by John Howard, February 24, 2020

Population Research Institute President Steven W. Mosher wrote at the New York Post on Saturday that China’s coronavirus epidemic could have been unleashed by researchers who sold laboratory animals to the notorious “wet markets” of Wuhan for extra cash.

The novel twist to Mosher’s theory is that Chinese lab technicians have an unfortunate history of selling experimental animals to vendors such as the ones that ply their trade in Wuhan’s wet market:

Instead of properly disposing of infected animals by cremation, as the law requires, they sell them on the side to make a little extra cash. Or, in some cases, a lot of extra cash. One Beijing researcher, now in jail, made a million dollars selling his monkeys and rats on the live animal market, where they eventually wound up in someone’s stomach.

Note the date. This is BEFORE most people even knew about this disease and before the pandemic really ignited.

"On January 19, 2020, a man who had returned home to Snohomish County, Washington near Seattle on January 15, after traveling to Wuhan, checked into an urgent care clinic after seeing reports about the outbreak.
Experiencing a cough, fever, nausea and vomiting, the Centers for Disease Control announced on January 21 that the 35-year-old had tested positive for COVID-19. He was hospitalized, where his condition grew worse and he developed pneumonia. His symptoms abated 10 days later.

I suspect that that COVID-19 originated from Fauci-funded research at the Wuhan lab, and I think it is, by far, the strongest hypothesis of origin. However, I think your belief that a worker smuggled a test animal out for sale in a wet market is extraordinarily unlikely.

I’ve traveled in China for decades and have spent months there. I have very close friends who live there. The candidate “test animals” would be either horseshoe bats or so-called “humanized” mice. Neither of these animals would be sold in the Wuhan wet market, which is essentially a farmers’ market where both meat and vegetables are sold. The horseshoe bat is a microbat that weighs just 1/2 of an ounce; it simply is not the sort of bat that people would sell in a market. There are much larger fruit bats that are sold in some Asian markets, but even these are not popular in Hubei Province. Mice are not sold in markets their either. If one goes on a trek in remote regions of Asia, one may encounter hill tribesmen who eat small rodents and bats, but they simply are not commercial items. Wet markets are common all over Asia, not just China, and they deal in commercial agricultural products. Some of these are very weird to an American, but they don’t include microbats and mice.

It’s not impossible that an employee acted on a hare-brained scheme to supplement his income, but a much, much simpler explanation is that an employee got infected by a highly contagious pathogen that was engineered in the lab.