[misja111]

Exactly this. I'm completely stunned how everybody seems to be ignoring the fact that the closest relatives of the Covid virus are in Yunnan, which is 1500 km away from Wuhan, or even further, in Laos. So a zoonotic origin of the outbreak which started in the Wuhan market would have involved animals transported to the market over 1500km or more. Doesn't anybody ask themselves, why Wuhan? Why was there no outbreak in any other city in China that was closer to Yunnan? Or even some in some market in Yunnan itself?

[mikeyouse]

Everyone agrees that SARS1 was of natural origin, right? All of the same points you're making about Covid19 apply equally to the origin of SARS1.

First outbreak of SARS1: Foshan

Distance from cave containing progenitor virus in Yunnan to Foshan: 1,400 km

Doesn't anyone ask themselves why Foshan? Why not Qujing or Hanoi?

People don't take the location as some dispositive point proving the conspiracy because 15 years prior, a bat coronavirus from nearly 1,500km away infected an animal in the wildlife trade that started a pandemic in busy metropolitan area. So it doesn't seem especially unlikely for that to have happened again.