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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 3478878, member: 2524"] I explained in another thread why it is almost certainly an engineered virus rather than one that naturally evolved -- (1) it has substantial sequence differences / low homology to any other known coronavirus; (2) it entered humans for the first time in November 2019 which we know because there have been minimal mutations, it is the same virus all around the world ([URL='https://www.genomeweb.com/genetic-research/coronavirus-genome-sequencing-finds-distinct-genetic-differences-2003-sars-virus']Coronavirus Genome Sequencing Finds Distinct Genetic Differences From 2003 SARS Virus[/URL]) -- this means it didn't evolve in humans, it was engineered or it evolved in animals and hopped to humans for the first time in November; and (3) and it entered humans perfectly adapted for humans and maladapted for animals, as it binds human ACE2 and other human proteins with very high affinity. Viruses don't evolve in animals to be maladapted to their animal host but perfectly adapted to another host they've never occupied. Only engineered viruses do that. The situation will become clear to scientists as more sequences are obtained and published and analyzed. Very likely this will turn out to be a Frankenstein virus made of parts from multiple known viruses, as an Indian paper reported not long ago. [/QUOTE]