[throwaway963577]

I spent 5 years doing QA on synthetic oligos/genes used by just about everyone in synthetic biology. In my experience, edits are easy to detect if you know where to look--methylation patterns, unusually large numbers of start codons, and relatively few areas of high GC content.

But I'm also a Chinese agent, so take that with a grain of salt.

[tropo]

By "edits", you seems to be referring to something else. I think you mean something like CRISPR Cas9.

That is a straw man. I'm definitely not claiming that any such technology was used. The virus modifications in the Wuhan lab are older than the existence of most of that technology.

We didn't need modern technology to create the dog from the wolf. It's the same here, with viruses.

Breeding viruses in a lab is not detectable compared to what happens in nature.