Science does not draw firm conclusions until irrefutable evidence is provided, so the actual answer is “don’t know for sure, but evidence points to a natural origin”.
Importantly though, it doesn’t really matter, since if it was some kind of lab escapee, there’s absolutely nothing that can be done about it. Overseas bio-engineering is not something that can be policed, since its functionally identical to the practice of studying certain aspects of medicine.
So, it’s kinda a waste of time and a red herring to care about it. The sort of bio-engineering that could theoretically create epidemics is absolutely happening, and cannot and should not be halted, since the same studies can also help cure diseases.
It’s not too different from a nuclear program, which can make weapons and/or civilian power plants. Except nuclear facilities are extremely hard to hide due to being huge and radioactive, where bio-engineering tools can be found in every major hospital.
Both true, depending on how you define them. Viruses tend to jump to humans from animals when living in close proximity. The wet market origin is the most likely theory regarding the origin, which makes it both man made and natural, along with so many other diseases affecting humans throughout history.
Sure, the wet market origin hasn’t (and cannot) be 100% proven, but using this to speculate that this means that a biolab origin is just as plausible is both dangerous and dumb.
Even the biolab one could be both natural and man made: the virus was found and isolated by biologists studying local bat populations. They then failed to contain it properly (remember how surprised everyone was when they realized how contagious it was over the air?) and it started spreading.
Yeah, this seems like the kind of question that should be answered by random internet strangers.
Bruh
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Ok, im going in,
If man-made, we should asking if it was on purpose or not ?
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I personnaly believe, it was a lack of competency.
New viruses happen in nature LITERALLY ALWAYS - the only people to blame are the idiots who didn’t contain infection properly (See trump demanding those people get off their cruise and be sprinkled across america)
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