"But I keep returning to the basic, puzzling fact: This patchwork pathogen, which allegedly has evolved without human meddling, first came to notice in the only city in the world with a laboratory that was paid for years by the U.S. government to perform experiments on certain obscure and heretofore unpublicized strains of bat viruses — which bat viruses then turned out to be, out of all the organisms on the planet, the ones that are most closely related to the disease. What are the odds? "
Seems very possible and traceable it was taken from the mineshaft to labs, rewired and got out in Wuhan. Like is said in the article this virus is ready to rock out the gate.
It's important to find out how and where, it's not trying to blame anyone in China and if anything this is tied to US scientists training and funding others to find obscure threats while creating one themselves. Humans are so accident prone and it can become an unhealthy obsession. The people indirectly responsible will just think we have to be more careful.