Epidemiologist Ellie Murray said it better than I could, so I’ll just quote her: “Yes, the chance of a virus like SARS-CoV-2 suddenly arising is fairly low. That’s why we have so few pandemics!!
But conditional on being in a pandemic the chance that the virus that arises to cause it is like SARS-CoV-2 is super high!!
There’s no conspiracy, just statistics”[0]
That said, the fact that the outbreak started so close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is certainly suggestive that it escaped from the lab, though that doesn’t mean it was necessarily “man made.”
But conditional on being in a pandemic the chance that the virus that arises to cause it is like SARS-CoV-2 is super high!!
There’s no conspiracy, just statistics”[0]
That said, the fact that the outbreak started so close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is certainly suggestive that it escaped from the lab, though that doesn’t mean it was necessarily “man made.”
[0]https://twitter.com/epiellie/status/1281960135796101120?s=21