The story is that "they made a mistake in a lab"...

1. while doing research that has been banned in other nations due to the extreme hazard

2. despite having a history of lab virus escapes that killed people

3. and then they covered it up

BTW, the virus is at least sort of man made. The lab was breeding viruses. There is no evidence that gene editing technology was used, but we do know that the lab has published multiple research papers about making coronaviruses more infectious in humans.

I think there needs to be a damn good justification for purposely making viruses more able to infect and harm humans. Why would you do that????? Mere scientific curiosity is not a proper justification for putting all of humanity at risk.