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I must admit that I did not bother watching it all but I watched enough to realise that it is highly biased reporting and, like all the best propaganda and conspiracy theories, takes some truths, a lot of unsupported assertations, and some outright untruths, all dressed up and delivered in a professional and authorative way to people (us) who do not have the necessary knowledge, access to the original documents, reliable translations, etc. to comprehend what is true and what is false. Unfortunately for their case their are some untruths that are relatively easy to uncover, one such is the release of the genome which has been made freely available together with sample to researchers. Once you understand that part of the report is BS the rest of it is thrown into doubt. If that was not enough the very language at the beginning of the video, emphasising the word "Communist" multiple times, immediately makes you realise that there is an extreme bias.

Such reports need to be treated with extreme scepticism. In reality the Chinese government has been quick to take action and shown that they are absolutely prepared to share information and knowledge. They have even gone so far as to send, biological samples, medical support and donate equipment, respirators etc. to help Italy and then other countries (even America).

There was an unrelated virus that was found to have originated in Australian Fruit Bats some years back. If I recall correctly there were few deaths and it did not develop beyond that despite a big scare at the time. If it had been more virulent we may have had a pandemic that started in Australia. Would you then blame the Australian government?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_bat_lyssavirus

Personally I am more prepared to believe it is an unfortunate transmission from bat's to humans, perhaps because of cultural issues in China, but I am not prepared to believe in some escaped laboratory virus conspiracy theory. Unfortunately this is going to effect the way we have been living for some time to come let us just accept that we are all in the same boat and get on with learning to live with it. And hopefully defeat it!