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>>ruarai+(OP)
I think it's possible the virus leaked from a lab in China, but it's also possible it was transmitted in the wild a la "wet markets". Either way, regrettably due to Chinese propaganda and tight controls on speech and the press, it is highly unlikely the world will get an open and honest investigation from the Chinese government. The PRC simply cannot be trusted, which sadly has added immense fuel to all conspiracy theories involving that nation.

I think the Wuhan/COVID/Coronavirus can be compared to the Soviet government's response to Chernobyl. Great efforts were made to keep a lid on that disaster from the people, and the world, until it was too great to ignore. Granted, a long time ago, but it's an example of what a totalitarian government (like China) might do in the face of such catastrophe.

>>Simula+Dd
My own idea is a combination of the two. I wonder if it leaked out of the lab by a lab employee trying to make some money on the side by selling lab animals to the wet market. (Note well: This is just my "seems kind of plausible" guess. I have no actual evidence to support it. And no, it's not actually "my own" idea - I heard it suggested by someone, who also had no evidence that I recall.)

>>Animal+HN
半混蛋 So you say, it was the janitor, with dead lab animals, in the wet market, making some surplus money?

I assumed it was the gardener, in the dining room, with the hatchet..

Its almost as if the whole human species could not be trusted with dangerous tools and regularly drops the ball.

These wet-market are such a medieval relic and all just because of superstitious nonsense about refrigerated food being bad for your chi.

Homeopathy, TMC and how those shamanistic practices are all called wherever by whomever kill. 2.7 million so far...

Even worser, when you think about all those other "tech" miracles enlightenment zealots insist humanity can be entrusted. We blow a nuclear power plant every ten years, drop the vials like they are hot, but hey more power into each pocket.

Cant wait for the first long-range flying car, getting hacked and used in a remote attack. That surely will be the day, someone will admit that tech is limited,not by what can be done, but by who gets to wield it.

Makes one wonder though, that day i entrusted that vital system for millions, to that upstream repo.. was i the janitor that day..