[bradleyjg]

Originally evolved in the wild to at least some extent

Almost everyone thinks this is true. Even the most fringy people don’t seem to be claiming that a virus was synthesized from scratch.

Found its way into a wet market near said lab

Ditto for this one. It’s pretty clear that there was a cluster of people early on that were infected in or near the market.

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The distinction between the lab leak and non-lab leak theory is whether the lab had anything at all to do with the chain of transmission.

If patient zero caught the virus in the lab or from a vector that was once in the lab, that’s lab leak. It’s apologists for the lab that want to conflate lab leak and bioweapon in order to dismiss the former as a nutty conspiracy theory.

[igouy]

> … want to conflate lab leak…

And if a lab worker had become infected while field sampling captive farmed "wild" animals for the lab and brought the infection to Wuhan?

And if a lab worker had become infected while buying captive farmed "wild" animals for the lab and brought the infection to Wuhan?

And if a lab worker had become infected while buying captive farmed "wild" animals for dinner and brought the infection to Wuhan?