[ColanR]

There's a decent amount of evidence to suggest it did, and China has already shown themselves unreliable (putting it mildly) regarding information about the virus. I don't think you have a leg to stand on if you propose to speak with such certainty.

[bigbluedots]

I'd be interested in reading any evidence, could you provide some links?

[emmelaich]

No evidence here, but it shouldn't be dismissed either.

From Wikipedia ..

> Coronavirus research In 2005, a group including researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology published research into the origin of the SARS coronavirus, finding that China's horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.[6] Continuing this work over a period of years, researchers from the Institute sampled thousands of horseshoe bats in locations across China, isolating over 300 bat coronavirus sequences.[7]

In 2015, the Institute published successful research on whether a bat coronavirus could be made to infect HeLa. A team from the Institute engineered a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and mimic human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.[8][9]

[ksk]

Nobody believes in this "theory" because the evidence is shoddy. But yeah, maybe its all a coverup. You can believe anything you want, for any reason.

[fg6hr]

This entire thread will be taken down shortly. I've noticed the interesting pattern of comments being downvoted or flagged if they mention the lab.

[Kaze404]

Because nobody cares about conspiracy theories.