I commend your work in putting that post together. It's still true that the current virus is complex and not likely man made. Although, I think it might be possible. It seems highly unlikely to design and build such an organism when we haven't yet perfected the technology to do so. Nanotech will evolve to that point though, some day. That's is concerning.
If nature is the maker of that weird ass coronavirus... How did nature do? Crossbreeding right? Nature doesn't have a magic wand
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How hard would that be to "speed up" the cross breeding process in a lab? And to also orient it, through strain selection?
Not that hard, it doesn't even require extraordinary tech
Nature rolls dices, we can roll dices faster
https://www.newscientist.com/term/what-is-crispr/
Been in the works for a long time.
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