I'd qualify that statement. There is zero hard forensic evidence that it existed in a lab somewhere before the uncontrolled outbreak. If such evidence did exist

I'd qualify that statement. There is zero hard forensic evidence that it existed in a lab somewhere before the uncontrolled outbreak. If such evidence did exist, the PRC would never let it see the light of day anyway. There is, however, plenty of circumstantial evidence. Remember that guy who said we should treat the Hunter Biden story as if it was a foreign disinfo op, even if it probably isn't? Yeah, that was crazy, but I actually see similar logic here. If the virus was engineered, that's really really bad for the world. It's like Iran suddenly making a nuke under everyone's nose... except if Iran had the largest population and largest economy in the world. It's so insanely important that even a tiny chance that it is true--like 0.1%--is enough to warrant strong diplomatic pressure on China to be totally transparent about the early days of the virus. As someone else pointed out, it doesn't have to be engineered--China has already shown that it has a cache of previously unrevealed viral samples, so it could also just be a natural virus found on one of Dr. Shi's hunting expeditions that got loose from the lab.