Your comment is logical, but I can picture the scenario where the chicoms see it as a win-win, if they controlled it to just Wuhan, which they did..
they release it near their lab to give the 'whoops. it escaped' alibi.
they do it near the wet lab to say, 'we think they ate a bat' alibi.
they kill off their elderly in the process who don't contribute as much to their society (not my thinking! theirs!). Higher death rate for the elderly.
You don't release a virus you think capable of devastating a nation and gamble on whether you can contain it. That's the dumbest gamble to make. You have hindsight, they didn't. You're not going to make point of origin inside your borders, let alone your industrial hub.
Your comment is logical, but I can picture the scenario where the chicoms see it as a win-win, if they controlled it to just Wuhan, which they did..
They have evidence of LIVE BATS in the Wuhan Lab. Maybe they were just Bat-Snacks.
Killing of a bunch of old people is key.
You don't release a virus you think capable of devastating a nation and gamble on whether you can contain it. That's the dumbest gamble to make. You have hindsight, they didn't. You're not going to make point of origin inside your borders, let alone your industrial hub.