Originally Posted by
radonc1
I don't think anyone other than conspiracy theorists think that the Chinese made the virus in the Wuhan Virology lab.
However, that does not mean they were not studying the virus there and somehow it might have accidentally leaked out from it. That is a horse of a different color.
The fact that Chinese authorities suppressed details of the disease initially seems to parallel what the Soviet Union did when Chernobyl melted down. Neither event could be hidden for long, but we didn't find out about the details of Chernobyl until the disintegration of the Soviet Union.