What evidence? Someone saying it was natural? China hasn't given out any evidence about its origins at all, and they didn't allow WHO to investigate for the obvious reason that it probably was not natural. It's been confirmed that bat coronavirus research was conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and so what counter evidence would at all suggest that it was released from the wet market? Have they identified a patient zero? Have they even identified the exact wet market? Where is this growing body of evidence?
Apologies, I should explain. When text appears blue, this means it links out to somewhere else. In this case, to a report of the latest study.
If you want another link, this time with pictures, then
a similar article in the LA Times (that's a link) may be useful.
As I say though, nothing is proven yet... and maybe we will never have definitive proof either way. But I am interested in your reaction to my post. You seem quite emotionally invested in the 'lab leak' origin, despite the dearth of evidence. What is it that makes you so sure that this is the explanation? Can't we just look at the evidence before arriving at a decision? Personally I believe that a natural origin is more plausible, but I'm certainly not saying it can't have been a lab leak.
The original link was a paywall'd article, but anyways, there wasn't any evidence in there regardless. You're giving the politically correct lefty view of where this virus came from, just not rooted in any evidence or any reality.
Here is China's Covid data -
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/Where they claim the initial outbreak occurred is as believable as their current Covid case load, complete nonsense. They kicked out any journalists from the country and silenced their own doctors from talking about the virus. Proximity of confirmed cases that the Chinese government themselves report is the weakest evidence for the origin of this virus. That doesn't tell you the origin. You characterized the wet market theory as being supported by a growing body of evidence, it's quite the opposite. More evidence is suggesting that it originated from a lab than anything else.
You seem quite emotionally invested in the 'lab leak' origin, despite the dearth of evidence
There is more evidence this originated in a lab than it did at a wet market, I figured you would have noticed that when linking the LA Times and WaPo, two far left pseudo journalist organizations, as sources.
Here is a good write up, by a left wing news outlet, in fact, which covers a lot of the odd coincidences of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and bat coronaviruses.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/lab-leak-covid-origin-coincidence-wet-market/620794/ No paywall.
And here is another summary of the gain of function research involving bat coronaviruses -
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/lab-leak-pandemic-origins-even-messier/620209/