“But they’re wrong; it’s still not engineered.”
Anyone who makes a statement like that is not trying to lay out the facts. They are trying to spread an opinion as fact.
Since no one (that will admit it) knows how this virus came to be, how would we ‘know’ it wasn’t engineered by a couple of very simple procedures that could appear as ‘natural mutation’ ?
I’m not technically qualified to answer that question - are you?
Seems like some folks with the qualifications are leaning to not engineered and the one crew who said it was is being called wrong...time will tell.