Nope. The Wuhan Institute of Virology is located several miles from the epicenter of the outbreak. The outbreak occurred at the Huanan seafood market. It happened because the Chinese have the practice of catching wild animals and selling them in live markets. That is an open invitation to bring zoonotic (animal origin) pathogens into a human population. SARS-CoV-2 infection at the Huanan seafood market.
The importance of identifying viruses that can potentially infect humans is so that we can be better prepared for outbreaks. When SARS-CoV-2 first crossed into humans, it was actually identified fairly rapidly because scientists had already determined that coronaviruses can have the properties of a pandemic pathogen. But what about other viruses that we might not even know exist at this time? What happens if one of those viruses crosses into humans? How will we identify them? How will we know if they are potentially pandemic capable? The more we know ahead of time, the more prepared we will be. And another pandemic will happen--history shows us that they have been sporadic occurrences for as long as humans have recorded history.
Hey Mom, who the hell are you and where have you been in the last two years to repeat this garbage about food market and to use big words like “zoonotic”? Crawl back to the hole you’ve been hiding in. Yep.
Like someone couldn't have transported the infectious agent from the biolab to the market to claim that the market was where it originated.
Right?
You sure are big on drinking the kool-aid.
You haven’t kept up with the latest. Japanese researchers have proven that the original COVID virus plus all variants have 100% come from a lab setting. In other words, they were engineered by a group of people to infect humans.