[Billthedrill]

Quite a stretch - this conflates the origin of the virus with the origin of the epidemic. It does, perhaps (I'll wait for peer review here) give an alternate theory of the origin of the virus itself, which is interesting but rather secondary at this point - where and how the virus mutated to its current form is only important if you're accusing that lab of creating it, which is going to take a whole lot more study to determine and likely never will be known. I am still agnostic but doubtful as to whether the thing was engineered - the early and sensational reports from India that fragments of HIV were found in the genome have not been replicated after numerous efforts - but it really doesn't matter much. If you're studying a virus - they were - and it gets out of that lab and spreads from there, then that's the origin of the epidemic. It didn't just magically pop up. All IMHO, of course.

[Jeff Chandler]

doubtful as to whether the thing was engineered . . . If you're studying a virus - they were - and it gets out of that lab and spreads from there, then that's the origin of the epidemic.

Yep.