Originally Posted by
velosnow
Studies continue to point to a natural jump, exactly how & when may never be known sadly. There is little, if any evidence to support other claims. Otherwise mere speculation.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...nalysis-nature
To your last point, studying pathogens has always been a dangerous task. There are many examples of things going wrong around the world and even here in the States. What we need are treaties to cover proper handling, classification, what should be studied and better sharing of data. Thankfully science does a decent job of not being beholden to politics, but we need to let our politics assist science instead of fighting against it.
That's exactly why many governments around the world funded the Wuhan Virology institute, China allows practices that are banned in other countries for that very reason. You do not think it's a little odd, that an institution, that was built for the specific purpose to study animal to human transmission of Coronaviruses, had an outbreak nearby? Isn't it likely that the institute would have the host animal?