Not really, there are other more mundane reasons. Here are some things widely known (you can find the proper sources by searching etc):
(A) The closest natural match was a sample taken from a bat cave about 1,000 miles south China, this the Wuhan lab admitted to, but I think they claim it's a coincidence. Yeah, right.
(B) One of their senior researchers (Daily Mail called him Bat Man) was prospecting for virus samples down south China, once boasting of having forgotten his biohazard suit and went prospecting while bat urine dripped on his head. He quarantineed himself afterwards, but it shows cowboy-like behavior, no offense to cowboys.
(C) Wuhan lab WAS doing addition-of-function research on bat coronaviruses. And HIV and SARS virus WAS a focus of their efforts. The ACE2 receptor WAS a focus, I believe. They were boasting of this research right until about last November, then website scrubbing -- an act of panic that suggests they were not evil masterminds at work.
(D) Lab discipline may have been poorly enforced. Many stories have been told, from busted seals on an LN2 sample storage unit (there was a pix) to one researcher getting infected to selling used lab animals to the wet market. Unclear what exactly is true, but the gist of it is clear -- they ruled their little kingdom, no checks and balances, their arrogance was their downfall.
Not really, there are other more mundane reasons. Here are some things widely known (you can find the proper sources by searching etc): (A) The closest natural match was a sample taken from a bat cave about 1,000 miles south China, this the Wuhan lab admitted to, but I think they claim it's a coincidence. Yeah, right. (B) One of their senior researchers (Daily Mail called him Bat Man) was prospecting for virus samples down south China, once boasting of having forgotten his biohazard suit and went prospecting while bat urine dripped on his head. He quarantineed himself afterwards, but it shows cowboy-like behavior, no offense to cowboys. (C) Wuhan lab WAS doing addition-of-function research on bat coronaviruses. And HIV and SARS virus WAS a focus of their efforts. The ACE2 receptor WAS a focus, I believe. They were boasting of this research right until about last November, then website scrubbing -- an act of panic that suggests they were not evil masterminds at work. (D) Lab discipline may have been poorly enforced. Many stories have been told, from busted seals on an LN2 sample storage unit (there was a pix) to one researcher getting infected to selling used lab animals to the wet market. Unclear what exactly is true, but the gist of it is clear -- they ruled their little kingdom, no checks and balances, their arrogance was their downfall.