Why would China engineer this virus as charged? Look at the headache it's caused for China that it's suspected of starting in China first. Yeah it's caused damage around the world but nothing where China can take and gives it decisive advantage. The West isn't down and out. It's only focuses anger at China. I'm not saying it is but if it was engineered it's exactly doing the things in the world that some country working against China would want to see happen. Look at how Trump and personal allies when they caught COVID-19 got this mysterious treatment that seem to have worked but was said costs a lot that regular people couldn't afford. Look at how some didn't care how many people died even their own citizens. The reason why you don't do anything is because you would want to see max damage as possible. And at first it was believed the developed world would be able to handle this virus better meaning the developing world would not. Blaming it on China would get the world to turn against China which is what the notorious suspects were trying to do in general before COVID-19 showed up.
That's exactly the point. If China really did bioengineered the virus for some nefarious purpose:
1) Why bother to alert the WHO and CDCs around the world? Then everyone would know that a new epidemic has emerged in China.
2) Why even bother to share the virus genome sequence? It gives people the opportunity to scrutinize the genetics of the virus. Not something to do if you're is trying to cover up a self-engineered bioweopon on the loose on your on soil.
3) Why even show the drama unfolding in Wuhan to the world? Especially if China was really trying to cover up. Wanna know how a cover up looks like? When the Soviets had the Chernobyl disaster, they didn't officially acknowledged it to the world until the radiation is detected in a nuclear plant in Sweden.
4) Why publish the infection and death tally from Covid-19? During the first two months of 2020, China had the highest amounts of reported infections and deaths in the world by far. The second biggest outbreak at that time was the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Covid-19 had far exceeded the scale of SARS in China. Again, if this was a cover up. China is doing an unimaginably terrible job.
There are too many holes in the logic of the anti-China nut jobs trying to push the Wuhan lab narrative. If China really did suffered a leak of a bioengineered virus of its own making. The best course of action is to just keep quiet about it. Solve the problem at home and let another country discover the new virus. It emerged in South Korea and Japan next. So why not let them discover it and then let everyone else call it the 'Seoul Virus', or 'JSARS'? Isn't that so much easier? There would be so much less PR disaster to suffer from. After all viruses, unlike radiation is far harder to trace.
China is perhaps a victim of its own success. When the Wuhan outbreak was raging. I felt a genuine sense of sincerity of fighting a disaster. Very similar to what I've seen during the Wenchuan earthquake of 2008. China had never expected the developed world to suffer on the scale like it had. Much less, see them so grossly underperform. In 2019, it was pretty much common sense that the first world countries should manage epidemics better than China.
Furthermore China even felt a sense of responsibility for the virus. Having suspected it came from wildlife markets, China clamped down hard on the wildlife trade. It even invited WHO scientists to trace the virus through its own wildlife trade. Even allow them into the labs in Wuhan! This is not the behaviour of a country with something to hide.
In this Covid-19 global crisis, there are many things to be upset about. China is near, or at the bottom of that list.
Next, we shall observe the behaviour of the US when the WHO calls to investigate cases on its soil. I'm almost certain the US would not cooperate the same way that China had. Then we can all see, who is truly hiding something.
