[lamontcg]

> And for SARS1 they found that within months

They sterilized the wet market this time. With SARS1 the market was open and there were infected animals there when they went and looked. The reaction to this pandemic was to attempt to sterilize everything.

> possibly enchanted

It wasn't "possibly enchanted".

SARS-CoV-2 is still 1,000 mutations and a couple decades of evolution away from the closest known animal virus that WIV might have had, and which there's no evidence that they had that live virus in the lab. And you don't get from one to the other from forming chimeras or from serial passage experiments. The mutations were all distributed around the genome.

[ricksunny]

I believe 'enchanted' was an autoincorrect of 'enhanced' -(an activity which, by the way, moots molecular clock arguments)

[lamontcg]

No it doesn't. We don't have any magic that can create decades worth of mutations across the entire genome.