Severe anomalies on the john hopkins map's spread out of China and into Europe running the "out of china" theory. Looking at the official chinese numbers of infected from chinese province to province. Look up horse shoe bat as food and medicine and what regions are involved. The first known case of MERS occurred in Jordan. Horse Shoe bat is the reservoir. It could go either way. Either China gets it from Africa or Africa gets it from China here(India not excluded). But the timeline of discovery correlating with Chinese returning from Africa for new year is a bit suspicious for me. Even if it was proven conclusive that this is a strain that can only come out of china, it is short sited to ignore that the horse shoe bat reservoir occurs outside of China, having previously experienced other pandemics of Coronavirus (MERS) that originated outside of China. As far as escape from the lab. Maybe I'm Naive, but I find myself believing Zhengli when she says she's up all night worried about the potential for escape and her ability to rule it out, where executions may be possible. Poor girl.