Originally Posted by
narvik
Indeed.
From the facts I've read, the consensus seems to be (and has for some time) that there is a strong likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 (or something similar thereto) was collected from bat caves and studied in the Wuhan lab, from where it 'escaped' most likely through negligence.
1) So, not man-made.
2) Not released deliberately.
3) "Originated" (sort of) from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab. (Whether this can be called "originated" could be argued of course...)
But if the bats were source of the infection and wet markets were butchering bats (with the inevitable blood spray), how can we know it was the lab and not the markets which was the initial infection point?