I also recall mass confusion about what constitutes “man-made”. That could mean anything from a natural-origin virus released accidentally from a lab that was l

I also recall mass confusion about what constitutes “man-made”. That could mean anything from a natural-origin virus released accidentally from a lab that was legitimately studying it, to an artificial-origin virus deliberately released from a lab for malign purposes. (As well as the even milder variant of “natural-origin virus that didn’t leak from a lab, but which humans encountered as a result of sample-gathering for research”)