GIVEN ENOUGH TIME, WE WILL EVENTUALLY SUSS OUT WHERE AND HOW THIS THING STARTED. All Signs Point to China
“[I]t seems very likely that the virus was amplified in the market, but the market might not have been the site of origin nor the only source of the outbreak. A recent phylo-epidemiological study has suggested that the virus was circulating but unrecognised in November, and was imported to the seafood market from elsewhere, where it subsequently was amplified.”