Every other theory requires involving many more unsupported hypotheses.
This would be obvious to the majority of the HN population in most cases, but the disinformation in this case is apparently quite effective.
No it doesn't.
All it takes is bats around farmed animals like minks or raccoon dogs.
That sets up a natural "gain of function" experiment with the bats passing viruses off to the farmed animals who pass it sequentially through the entire farm.
The humans who work at those farms then bring in human coronaviruses which could have recombined with the viruses in the farm.
You have large bioreactors doing gain of function experiments all over China right out in plain view, with Charles Darwin overseeing the lab work.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it would seem that if 'minks' were the problem, there would be trail of evidence to pick up on.
Hence the notion of speculation / Occam's Razor.