I did not ask if SARS-CoV-2 was a result of a biological weapon development, I still believe that that specific assumption has been disproved. What I asked was simple: Can the SARS-CoV-2 be part of a medical research trying to find a weakened Corona virus that could be used as inoculation against a new harmful virus?
Of the seven known Corona viruses known to infect humans one causes the common cold, three cause the flu, the rest caused pandemics: SARS, MERS & COVID-19.
While the rest of the world abandoned research on inoculation against SARS when the virus SARS-CoV-1 vanished, did China continue such research? Could SARS-CoV-2 be a step along the way? It seems to be a much weaker and less deadly than SARS-CoV-1 or the MERS virus.
The fact that SARS-CoV-2 is so contagious is why it is such a serious problem, more a logistic problem than a medical one - just the shear number of people who need hospitalization and the ones that continue on to needing a bed in ICU wreaks havoc on the medical staff in the hospitals.
I am not suggesting a conspiracy theory or asking for one. I just want an answer, if one exists, to my simple question above.