Looking likely that China bio lab could be the source of the China virus

Since the beginning of the pandemic people have been pointing out an oddity; a Chinese viral research center is within a few miles of the wet market where the virus allegedly started.

No one is saying that the Chinese manufactured the virus; it's not a bioweapon.

We knew from declassified State Department messages sent in 2018 that the US had concerns about the biocontainment procedures at that lab.

We now know from a Chinese government news report that there are multiple ways in that the China virus could have inadvertently escaped from the lab.

The official Chinese government source said:

Some researchers discharge laboratory materials into the sewer after experiments without a specific biological disposal mechanism,

What makes this really striking is that wet market cooks use "gutter oil" for cooking.  Here's what the WaPo, which is hardly a bastion of China haters, said:

China’s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil. Cooking oil is used heavily in Chinese food, so some street vendors and hole-in-the-wall restaurants buy cheap, black market oil that’s been recycled from garbage. You read that correctly. Enterprising men and women will go through dumpsters, trash bins, gutters and even sewers, scooping out liquid or solid refuse that contains used oil or animal parts. Then they process that into cooking oil, which they sell at below-market rates to food vendors who use it to cook food that can make you extremely sick.

This provides a mechanism for poorly processed biological waste from the Chinese virus lab to have gotten into the wet market without needing anyone in the lab to have actually contracted the disease.

It turns out that that is not the only way we know of that the China virus could have come from the China virus lab.

It turns out that academics in China have made money by illegally selling lab animals and experimental milk:

Medical staff and experts have long been asking for better regulation and supervision of biological research institutes in China, but with mixed results.

A top academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering earned 10.17 million yuan ($1.46 million) by illegally selling off lab animals and experimental milk, according to a report in the Shanghai-based The Paper.

Li Ning, a leading expert at transgenic technologies at China Agricultural University, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on January 2 for grafting 37.56 million yuan.

All it would take was one mixup of an infected animal for an uninfected one to have started this pandemic.

It's time to hold China responsible for its lax health standards that have led to multiple threats to global health.