the virus showed up in china and spread quickly to iran, before transiting to italy, where it seems to have mutated.

china. iran. right.

well....?

recognize that this isn't mutually exclusive, either. do the chinese even have the capability to bioengineer something like this? i'd doubt it, frankly. but, the strain that showed up in italy could very well have been retaliatory.

i don't know exactly how you'd prove a virus was or was not engineered in a lab without explicit evidence - scientists admitting it. if we start seeing very weird behaviour, it may tip something off, but it isn't proof.

stated in sciencey terms, the hypothesis isn't falsifiable. so, it's not actually science.

but, i'd be far more likely to blame it on the pentagon than the chinese....