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First and for most the fact that the National Biosafety Laboratory which is part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a Level 4 microbiology lab, (meaning it is equipped to make Chemical Warfare) that is equipped with many different kinds of viruses samples on reserve, and has the potential to create new mutated viruses, given the amount of knowledge and resources they have is very troubling. Also another fact that the lab is one of a kind in China, and it is the only top security lab that is occupied in that area and is the epicenter of the epidemic. As stated by Richard Ebright, the corona virus was a cousin of one found in bats captured by the institute in caves in the southwestern province of Yunnan in 2003, and that samples had been kept in the Wuhan lab since 2013. So you can see the implication that can lead to one believing this theory that the virus was made intentionally. They first blamed a seafood market not far from the Institute of Virology, even though the first documented cases of COVID-19 (the illness caused by SARS-CoV-2) involved people who had never set foot there. It turns out that snakes don’t carry corona viruses and that bats aren’t sold at a seafood market. Neither, for that matter, are pangolins, an endangered species valued for their scales as much as for their meat. Was the COVID-2019 internationally released for mass destruction? I think so. The possibility is real and becoming more and more dangerous by the decade as new technological advances are made and the human mind is broadened in new ways to manipulate dangerous molecular species.