A moment of dark speculation

I had been thinking of the WuFlu as a bit of an unfinished BioWar project.   The BSL-2 lab with the bat guy was probably engaged in, at best, dual-use research.  A good deal of his efforts were likely steered by the BSL-4 lab so conveniently colocated in Wuhan.

Now (and apologies, I'm not a virologist, I was into dropping nasty things off airplanes, not building 'em) as I understand it, COVID-19 exhibits a host of characteristics desirable in a weapon.  These comprise a medley highly unlikely to co-exist in nature, including: long dormancy, asymptomatic carriers, aerosol transmission, high contagion (here's where the HIV insert contributes), and a 'check sum' sort of component making it unlikely to significantly mutate (useful if your team wants to develop a pre-attack vaccine).

Sort of a real good delivery system lacking an appropriately highly lethal warhead.

And - nothing like the oft discussed Russian Bio super weapon - 'epox'.  A DNA Frankenstein comprised of ebola and smallpox.
https://fortunascorner.com/2014/08/21/russia-has-weaponized-ebola/

So, here's the question - did the species of bats being exploited in either lab in Wuhan include the greater long-fingered bat?

Because that's the species that would be associated with ebola.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/01/bat-species-may-be-source-ebola-epidemic-killed-more-11000-people-west-africa

A successful mix of Covid-19 with ebola would be even more hellish than the, possibly mythical, Russian epox. 

Very much the sort of bug a bat s#it crazy bunch like the CCP would be interested in.   They slavishly copied the old Soviet anti-carrier warfare architecture, an effort done at enormous cost.  For anti-carrier warfare they merely substituted anti-ship ballistic missiles for Backfires (and given their loyalty to good old AVMF strike planning, one wonders how many nukes per carrier they plan to employ).

Sukhoi and Tupolev jets, sea skimming anti-ship missiles, ocean surveillance satellites, all bearing the old Soviet heritage. Why wouldn't we expect them to endeavor to copy the Soviet/Russian bio war super weapon?

AND  -  4/15/20 - shortly after President Trump has calls with the Saudis and Vlad ...

Voila!  Disregard the overwhelming resemblance of COVID 19 to a - nearly complete - bio superweapon.  I suspect a deal has been struck.  The very forceful denial that the COVID-19 bug by senior uniformed personnel, with a smile no less, is a tell.  A cruise missile less the warhead is not a weapon?  Perhaps.  Good enough I guess.

Happily our interests have been represented by DJT.

There will be no war at this point, even though the CCP deliberately spread the virus in the US (thousands of the approved travelers from China were certainly carriers) so I can only expect the 'quid pro quo' was staggering.

https://www.independentsentinel.com/reporter-asks-president-about-sources-saying-the-virus-came-from-wuhan-lab/