Proponents of the lab leak hypothesis aren't arguing that the wet market was buying infected animals from the lab, but rather that a lab employee was likely acc

Proponents of the lab leak hypothesis aren't arguing that the wet market was buying infected animals from the lab, but rather that a lab employee was likely accidentally infected in the lab and then spread it to others when they stopped by the wet market. It's also possible that they spread it to others at another nearby location and then it spread from there to the wet market. Given the timing, the wet market looks like the location of an early superspreader event rather than the actual origin.