[IgorPartola]

You are the arbiter. Does the theory hold water? Is there evidence to support it? Is it self-consistent? Conspiracy theories often times fail under scrutiny because for example the amount of people they would involve. Think about the flat earth conspiracy: it would require that every airline pilot, every sailor, every satellite image processor, etc. all be in on the theory. It would only take one of them to show us photo/video/etc. evidence that the earth is in fact flat. And this isn’t just today but over thousands of years. Someone would have come forward by now. I believe there is even a formula for how much time it takes for someone to blow the whistle based on the size of the conspiracy. I think it estimated that the fake moon landing would have become public knowledge within four years.

As for origins of COVID, I personally believe there is a good chance it came from bats, but also a good chance that it came from a lab experiment that had accidentally escaped. The theory that it was deliberately developed as a bio weapon or that it was released on purpose does not seem to hold water as there are no clear plausible beneficiaries of that action.