CV and mad panic behaviour

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As it stands, the case that it escaped from the a Chinese lab is merely plausible rather than compelling. The weight of scientific opinion remains that it was a natural contagion.

Yes, this is clearly the consensus.

In reality these are two different issues, the origin of the virus and how it spread, but there is a segment of society that is vulnerable to a false premise, the Trump artform. Because they assume a virus escaping from a lab means it's an engineered virus, the false premise, after all what other sort of virus might escape a lab than a man made GMO virus?

The chance of it being an engineered virus does not increase with the chances of it escaping a lab, it's still most likely a naturally evolved contagion regardless of how it spread!