Please listen to this before dismissing it out of hand. There is something odd about Novel coronavirus.

First, we are told that it originated in the Huahan Seafood Market, but according to a Lancet article patient zero had no connection whatsoever (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)...) with the Seafood Market.

Second, this virus has some highly unusual properties that are not seen in any typical upper respiratory infection. It is unusual for a virus to be very infectious without symptoms. For example, The common cold is infectious from a few days before your symptoms appear until all of the symptoms are gone. Flu is usually most infectious from the day your symptoms start and for a further 3 to 7 days. That is because in order to spread from one person to another, a virus usually has to be present in large amounts in the body. This virus is insanely infectious before symptoms begin.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/infections/how-long-is-s...

Third, the genomic properties are highly unusual. It is an RNA virus which mutates unusually fast, making it difficult to treat as its signature changes all the time. According to Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a search of 2019-nCoV middle fragment revealed no considerable similarity with any of the previously characterized corona viruses. Notably, the new coronavirus provides a new lineage for almost half of its genome, with no close genetic relationships to other viruses within the subgenus of sarbecovirus. This genomic part comprises also half of the spike region encoding a multifunctional protein responsible also for virus entry into host cell. Our study rejects the hypothesis of emergence as a result of a recent recombination event.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.920249v1

Notably, the virus binds to ACE2 receptors which are far more common among Asian men. The result indicates that the ACE2 virus receptor expression is concentrated in a small population of type II alveolar cells (AT2). Surprisingly, we found that this population of ACE2-expressing AT2 also highly expressed many other genes that positively regulating viral reproduction and transmission. A comparison between eight individual samples demonstrated that the Asian male one has an extremely large number of ACE2-expressing cells in the lung. We also noticed that the only Asian donor (male) has a much higher ACE2-expressing cell ratio than white and African American donors (2.50% vs. 0.47% of all cells).

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full

Fourth, the virus originated in the most central city in China at the time most likely for it to spread uncontrolled, the even of the Lunar New Year where travel is massive.

While there is no proof it is a bioweapon, the confluence of factors is highly unusual. Before this, the Chinese nation was heavily feared as a rising challenge to the established world order. Those who want to see a weaker China and reverse its economic gains have great cause to privately celebrate the emergence of coronavirus.