It is a miraculous coincidence that a novel virus would spontaneously emerge at the exact location of a virology lab studying that virus.
The counterpoint to this is that this lab was setup in this location for the exact reason that a novel coronavirus would potentially emerge from bats in the region. This would require both miraculous forethought on the potential for bats in the region to produce novel coronaviruses, and a strange desire to place the virology lab near the location.
Most high level virology labs are centered based on considerations such as ability to hire talent and security/land concerns. It's relatively straightforward to organize expeditions to any region of the world at this point to collect samples.
Which means that for the standard explanation to hold true.
- A virology lab was created to study potentially dangerous versions of coronavirus (WIV founded 1956)
- The virology lab must have been placed near the location where animals were producing interesting virus strains. (WIV studying coronaviruses from all over China since 2005 including Horshoe bats from Yunnan province carrying progenitor strains of the SARS virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology)
- A novel coronavirus emerged near the WIV lab in Q4 2019 due to unrelated sales of locally hunted bats.
Strange things occur, but this would be strange enough as to require plausible studies identifying animal sources of Covid-19 to take at face value.
The counterpoint to this is that this lab was setup in this location for the exact reason that a novel coronavirus would potentially emerge from bats in the region. This would require both miraculous forethought on the potential for bats in the region to produce novel coronaviruses, and a strange desire to place the virology lab near the location.
Most high level virology labs are centered based on considerations such as ability to hire talent and security/land concerns. It's relatively straightforward to organize expeditions to any region of the world at this point to collect samples.
Which means that for the standard explanation to hold true.
- A virology lab was created to study potentially dangerous versions of coronavirus (WIV founded 1956)
- The virology lab must have been placed near the location where animals were producing interesting virus strains. (WIV studying coronaviruses from all over China since 2005 including Horshoe bats from Yunnan province carrying progenitor strains of the SARS virus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology)
- A novel coronavirus emerged near the WIV lab in Q4 2019 due to unrelated sales of locally hunted bats.
Strange things occur, but this would be strange enough as to require plausible studies identifying animal sources of Covid-19 to take at face value.