I did not make any "jump" - I just listed, what we *currently* know.
I guess there will never be any "absolute proof", how Sars-Cov-2 "as we know it" came to be.
There's only "certain probabilities" on a few scenarios, the most likely being:
1) it originated in bats - and was transferred naturally to "patient 0" (with high probability in Wuhan)
2) it was a lab-escape of one of the variations they produced in their research in Wuhan
against 1) speaks, that:
- transference of
natural occuring (unmanipulated) bat-corona-viruses to humans is extremely hard (no proof exists to this day)
for 2) speaks, that:
- the point above being exactly,
why "GOF-based manipulations in labs" had to happen in the first place
.. (to make the virus more transmissible to human cells - or as practiced in the Wuhan-lab: to "humanized mice"
- nobody disputes anymore, that the natural bat-virus is the one which most resembles Sars-Cov-2
- and nobody disputes, that the Wuhan-lab was specialized in manipulation of exactly that "natural-corona-strain" from bats
- nobody disputes, that they had a database of created Corona-variations (about 20-thousand of them) online till end of 2019
- nobody disputes, that they took it offline (before China announced the outbreak in Wuhan officially)
- nobody disputes, that they filed reports to their funders in the US, describing the effects of their manipulation (on the humanized mice)
- nobody disputes, that Lab-escapes are quite common
Now draw your *own* conclusions from that...
If I may make a suggestion to public media-channels, how to "sell it, without hurting anyones belief":
"It had to be a
lab-escape of a
bat" ... (which later infected patient 0)
Olaf