We are definitely going to talk about this and there are a couple of websites and a paper that you will read that discuss this. In essence, for the virus to have been manufactured in a lab, there would have had to be starting material. The idea is that the original SARS virus could be genetically edited to build SARS-CoV-2. But that assumes that someone had to know where to modify the original virus and what that modification would have to be. Our original course was supposed to be on gene-editing which is what this would have been. But you have to know what gene to edit and this could not have been predicted to make SARS-CoV-2. If someone had 300 years to do this, maybe. Or, maybe, nature and evolution did it.
Regarding bats: we will read an article, Give Bats a Break.