There's a conspiracy theory floating around that claims the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) was a bioweapon engineered by China.
I don't know how or when it started. Tom Cotton broached the theory back in January:
We still don’t know where coronavirus originated. Could have been a market, a farm, a food processing company.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) January 30, 2020
I would note that Wuhan has China’s only biosafety level-four super laboratory that works with the world’s most deadly pathogens to include, yes, coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/CtuU2czBLp
I would add: BSL-4 labs represent the highest level of containment for deadly pathogens. There are only about 50 BSL-4 labs in the world.
My thoughts:
