This was on the dark horse podcast last week.

I'm pretty much sold. This isn't acting anything like a natural virus.

You should see (in order)

Jump from animal to human. Human gets really damn ill. Often missed in isolated cases in developing countries.

Repeat jumps from human to human, very low transmission rates. Only affects certain tissues.

After many human hosts it evolves to jump functionally from human to human. (Epidemic)

Infects most human tissues.

All of these run up steps are missing. And it first appeared in the same city as a lab that was evolving bat viruses to infect humans, with very basic (inadequate) biohazard procedures.

Plus as the article says.

I think what a lot of people are glossing over is that the Chinese threatened people against looking at the lab origin hypothesis.