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Also, being a possibility or being a plausibility is vastly different than either being most likely so or being most probably so. If you don't know about the early strains and their distribution in Wuhan, then you don't have the data that you need to have in order to understand the problem. So, my statement presumed that you had something to base your assumptions/understanding on. Clearly, you don't: otherwise, I am sure that you would not be making such statements and posting sources that clearly don't have much of a clue on the origin of the virus or have a responsible treatment of that question given what is known.

Following is a source discussion that you might consider. There are several discussions linked to this one as well, but this one is effectively the summary. If you are not familiar with microbiology, the terminology might be a bit difficult to follow when they are specific, but it is not at the level of biochemistry, so it should not be impossible to understand if it is actually of interest. It would be misleading for me to say that it would be no problem to understand the material if you don't have any background in biological sciences: it is not trivial material, but it is not at too high a level either. They reference many of the related episodes at the beginning of this video: