As someone who has studied the virus itself quite extensively and helped the senior geneticists map out its genome for the production of test kits, I can say that the virus has its own merits for unusual mutations and genes but that in itself isn't sufficient to pin down the virus to underground laboratories in China. For novel viruses, we are expected to see some random fuckery in gene sequences, which SARS-CoV-2 clearly has. There are also some parts wherein the virus appeared to have been inserted with some carefully-concocted gene, but those parts were also seen in some bats carrying different strains of the said coronavirus, which rules that possibility out.
What is your own theory about the appearance of the polybasic furin cleavage site? (Assuming you had access to the full genomic sequence of the virus?)
Also, what is your theory about the strange results coming out of comparing this virus with RaTG13 vis a vis the distribution of evolutionary changes to the genomes?
Have you considered these questions? (Please see the videos for details if you have time.)
Yes, some sequence parts are naturally occurring in bats, and some are naturally occurring in pangolins, but to happen to have both of those in the same virus, and for this combo to happen to be key to multiplying the contagion ability, seems quite a co-incidence to me. In any case, I can't see jumping to the conclusion 'which rules that possibility out,' via the info you present.
If, and if the virus was really made in the lab, governments should file a case against the laboratory in particularly who engineered it, but even independent, non-government researches funded by private firms are disagreeing to this scenario.
We know for sure nothing good will happen to an entity that defies the agenda of the Western political (bipartisan) establishment. What happened to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange was probably enough of a warning, which was probably made deliberately. Would you jeopardize the firm you built up all you life by exposing something this big, where you'd probably get drowned out anyway (as Chris Martenson seems to be?)
Perhaps people are formulating different cases in their heads to favor what they think is happening. Since the economy of the world took an instant hit the moment economic lockdowns and closures were set into place, people quickly rushed to the conclusion that this is an elaborate plan to sabotage the economy and to help the superpowers do an economic reset, which isn't even happening and are even flinging them further into the debt oblivion.
I think only a (very) small no. of people think this is a plan to sabotage and reset the financial and economic system.
'Which isn't even happening' is premature at this point. Even something as drastic as the Great Depression took a few years to go from specific-asset collapse, to systemic asset collapse, to severe deflation, to devaluation and reflation. (From 1929 to 1934.) A controlled reset would arguably take longer -- slow motion should be the key to control.
There seems to be no reason why these Western entities should, with one voice, cover for China's mistaken or deliberate release of the virus, UNLESS...
They aren't trying to save China from a pitfall but rather acting logically so as not to cause panic all over the world. The last thing that you want to incite during these hard times are mass gatherings and public outrage pointed towards someone not proven of being guilty.
This is not at all certain. If we know anything about the mainstream media, it's that you don't need to be proven guilty beyond doubt, as in a court room, for the media to go after you. You could easily argue that exposing a possible crime against humanity by China would greatly enhance solidarity among and within 'democracies' and make the task of handling the virus easier. The Western media has never been easy on China, and this treatment would be a first.
If the Westerners are covering up China, why the hell would Trump release several derogatory remarks to them during the spread of the virus?
There are often dissenting voices within Western governments. Even in the heyday of using artificially cheap Chinese currency and 'globalization' to help support US money and debt, there were voices in the US government against Chinese currency manipulation and against the loss of manufacturing. Those voices amounted to a slap on the wrist and the mainstream agenda prevailed (as you notice today, even the Trump/belligerent-GOP camp are usually careful to say China released the virus accidentally, at least for now.)
Further (circumstantial) evidence of a co-operation includes the fact that, somehow, all major Western countries allowed the virus to spread until it was too late for containment, and had to shut down their economies.
This is because there were only little information to work with back in February to early March about the virus and how quickly it spreads.
Oh, trust me, there was enough information in the US government. Even Trump's Peter Navarro wrote a memo about the serious threat by the virus in late January (and that was very late BTW...)
The initial reproduction value of the virus was set at R0>3.0 which was dismissed by several research institutions and placed it to a mediocre R0>0.9 which isn't really a cause for concern for most epidemiological models. This resulted into countries issuing only guidelines for physical distancing and wearing face masks which, of course the citizens gladly disobeyed (the USA is a prime example, heh, spring breaks). Little do they know that this virus will grab them by the pussy (heh) and make things worse than it already is on other countries.
What happened to the US, Spain, Italy and other European countries wasn't an elaborate collaboration to reset the economy by deliberately spreading the virus but rather lack of preparation and their ignorance to the actual numbers re: COVID-19.
If Chris Martenson, who by his own account was only armed with his $100-a-month internet connection, knew by late January that this virus was no joke (asymptomatic transmission, death rates, hospital capacity problems, etc.) You're saying the US or UK intelligence services were genuinely unaware? (I would, however, say that it's possible that key people in these services decided not to pass the info to Trump or Johnson, or at least not in a way that would wake them up. In which case I can assure you there won't be any retribution against those key people. Heck, Jeffrey Epstein would have got off if he hadn't so addicted to sex!)
Also, the repo market crisis erupted in September, and the Federal Reserve seemed unable to fix it once and for all. This suggests something deep in the financial system was already broken beyond repair. In addition, there was a Canadian lab which had a habit of getting its materials 'stolen' by Chinese (as Canada was not subject to strict post-9/11 controls over US labs.) Its director suddenly died on a business trip to Kenya during the outbreak in China.
Still, this does not explain the collaboration you are mentioning that includes the West and China. Why would they inflict more problems on their already insurmountable financial problems in the first place?
As I've said often in replies to other people above, the 'insurmountable financial problems' were the precise reasons for a reset. The choice was not between pain and no pain. The choice was between pain due to controlled vs. uncontrolled downturn.
Heck, stimulus funds, giving aid to all citizens and frontliners while imposing closure of their country's source of profits for.. an economic reset? That does not pan out and will not work out well, amigo.
Very few people understand the true nature of the socio-economic-financial system at work. (And I think this is by design.)
During the centuries of gold/silver standards, financial resets followed asset crashes simply by assertion that the peg against gold/silver must be defended at all cost, since the 'moral honor' of the nation was at stake. So resets were almost exclusively done by default, deflation and austerity, and the pain was shouldered by the real economy only. This was as opposed to a reset by inflation, where the pain would have been spread between the financiers, the politicians and the real economy, but the system's reputation would have taken a hit. (IMO nothing says that the system is rigged and broken more clearly than when long-running 'truths' that currency is worth so much gold or so much purchasing power are broken via devaluation and inflation.)
The Great Depression was the first time that this lop-sided distribution of pain had to be tempered to some extent. A combination of more universal voting, a strong labor movement, etc. probably made the difference. A 'New Deal' was created when the dollar was devalued against gold to create more currency and more inflation, and the new money was used to give government jobs to the unemployed.
Today's bailouts of Wall and Main streets are just various incarnations of the New Deal. Today's populace will simply not quietly endure the full share of the pain. This has all become part of the plan. But whatever flavorings are added to the soup, the mainstay of an economic reset will still be economic pain for the majority of the population (and this too has proved to be the case, so far.)
Ultimately, whether it's the Great Depression or today, the work force needs to be re-purposed away from the demands of a bubble-economy towards those of a more stable (and definitely more modest, initially,) economy. If most people are bailed out so comfortably that they have no incentives to retool and work, the whole economy will disappear, and that, at least so far, has never happened.