where have you been for the last 11 months? We been discussing Covid to death.AFAIK, they don't have a champion bat virus collector in Italy.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology have been studying corona virus in bats for at least 15 years. They have been analysing at least 300 corona viruses.
There is little doubt that SARS-COV2 originated from bats, SARS-COV mutated to SARS-COV2 but a couple of mutations remain unexplained. Therefore, theories abound where the mutations come from: bat, snake, pangolin etc. The main change that interests me is in the polybasic cleavage site of the spike protein that made the virus so lethal in some patients.
I am the only one on this forum believing it's man made.