Originally Posted by
rickair7777
It's possible, but they didn't do it intentionally.
Old military axiom: ‘a bullet may just have your name on it’ and there is nothing you can do about it. But most of the bullets whizzing around the battlefield are addressed ‘to whom it may concern.’
Whether THIS pandemic was laboratory caused or not, the evidence of history suggests that security in labs that work with such material needs to be tightened up - particularly in China:
https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-con...17-14-copy.pdf
For that matter, there are places in the world that are sparsely settled that pose far less danger of inadvertent spread in the event of accidental release than a lab in the middle of a city of 11 million people. The Gobi desert, for instance, has a population density of three people per square mile.