“It is nonsense, unintelligible, and not even remotely scientific,” he said, adding that the authors, one of whom is a British academic, “do not appear to understand the most basic concepts of evolutionary biology.”
One conspiracy theory about the virus is that it was engineered. Viral geneticists say that’s just not true.
As a spin doctor as you are, you must say this is a conspiracy. Unluckily for you some folks here do have more deep connections to very knowledgeable people in research labs. Theses people do not support your conspiracy spin. It is highly unlikely that this virus did evolve naturally - lets say once in a universe time...
Unlike you these people are not allowed to openly talk for obvious reasons. Nobody wants to endangers his research and industrial connections...
Lets wait for the Chinese as these certainly do push hundreds of researchers to reintroduce the virus into a pangolin or bat. I expect a somewhat better fit as you did post after about 6 months earliest.
My advise: Stop this nonsensical (paid? or lent identity? ) spin work as you definitely are not an expert in this field.
You should only restart to post here if you can give us the exact reproduction path (all mutation steps!) from your beloved fantasy virus to CoV-19! And also do not forget that the intermediate steps must work (be infectious & replicate!) in the proposed intermediate host!