> Yet in computer simulations, the mutations in SARS-CoV-2 don't seem to work very well at helping the virus bind to human cells. If scientists had deliberately engineered this virus, they wouldn't have chosen mutations that computer models suggest won't work. But it turns out, nature is smarter than scientists, and the novel coronavirus found a way to mutate that was better — and completely different— from anything scientists could have created, the study found.<p>The above is the primary takeaway from the report.
I understood the 'lab made' argument is a strawman. Much more realistic is a scenario where someone messed up either transport or storage of a real, natural bat virus at the Wuhan lab.
This detracts, via a strawman argument, from the more pressing concerns: was it leaked from a lab? Or, given this evidence, was it evolved/mutated in a lab?