Fact is: Nobody knows, right now, where it came from, nobody can say it came from or didn;t come from a lab, and nobody can say it came from or didnt come from a natural source. All that has changed is that it has become permissible to say it came from a lab

From memory you are a specialist in this field. Now, as a complete non-specialist, I listened to the interview of Jim Haslam, as posted above, and thought it credible in terms of timeline, names of people involved, and hard evidence (emails etc) and the claim that the genetic code was tempered with. I post it here again, just in case you have time to check it out. If we get lucky you may have the time ..