[justinlink]

I'm no expert at all, but I think one of the major differences between SARS-Cov-1 and SARS-Cov-2 origin was within months animals were identified as the carrier of SARS-Cov-1, specifically in May 2003 bats and masked palm civets.

To date, I'm not sure we've found bats with SARS-Cov-2, or even know what secondary host animal made the jump to humans. Obviously China (and the whole world) would be highly motivated to find these sources, and it's been over 15 months.

[mytailorisrich]

What you're implying is that not only SARS-Cov-2 comes from a lab leak but that it is also artificial. That is quite a claim.

I believe that for SARS they did find it in civets sold in markets or other animals. But since that was after the epidemic in humans had started it's not clear to me if civets contaminated humans or the other way round (we've found Covid in cats and minks, maybe more, and they were all contaminated by humans).

But they only found SARS-like virii in bats, same as now there are Covid-like virii bats, and as far as I know and it did take them 15 years to find the one that gave SARS.