COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

PurpleBlack&Gold said
I also want to point out that how likely is it that someone was able to find a bat coranavirus that had significant homology rather quickly unless it had already been identified and that particular coronavirus was already sequenced? Same thing with the pangolin.

How likely is it that they randomly started looking for coronaviruses in the wild and ran across a "new" bat coronavirus in a couple of months? Even less likely someone would decide to test a pangolin for a coronavirus and then miraculously found it would be 99% similar to Sars 2.

These had to be known coronaviruses to have those sequences to even compare them.

The big question is were either of these similar reservoir coronaviruses used in gain of function research?

There was an article a few months ago that said that a scientist that worked for one of the labs in Wuhan who's job was to find bats that that had previous unknown virus infections. (the Bat Lady was her nick name), It said that she brought back some Horseshoe Bats whose nearest colony was 500 miles away for study by scientists at that lab. She has since disappeared and so has most if not all of the lab techs. The article also said that no one remembers seeing a horseshoe bat in a Wuhan wet market. I believe that someone in that lab got infected and (unknowingly) and passed it on by either going to the market or passing it on to a family member that went there.