It could be as simple as someone got infected in the lab and went to the market.

Right? As if any handling or safety gear and equipment is 100% perfect. Never any needle stick or glove failures. Respirators and protective clothing always 100% perfect. Everyone perfectly followed all lab safety precautions with no absent minded failures. Just perfect all the time forever.

I’ve always thought it was a handling contamination that got into community spread. It’s a very parsimonious explanation.

Did you read the article? They patented a device to cut off blood flow to limbs in case of accidental injury with a needle.

I didn’t see that part, only skimmed as it’s pretty long.

A tourniquet won’t do anything for a needle stick injury. That’s pretty silly. A virus landing in a capillary bed takes 1 minute to reach the heart.

If the tourniquet somehow did stop fast enough, what will they do? Debride the entire area? Sounds like total bullsh.

If they were doing experiments with serialized passage through so-called humanized mice and they escaped you'd have the engineered virus suddenly showing up being carried by many different species at the wet market in spite of natural viruses jumping species much more slowly.