That strain is said to be characteristic to large horseshoe bats from Yunnan
Bats in China don't seem to live so far north, and away from the coast. More so, for larger species.
The very few bats known to live near cities, are all small insectivorous species. SARS carrying bat species don't normally like living near humans.
Bats are not considered food, even by nouveau riche weird meat eaters in China.
The above mean that there should be no bats sold on wet markets. First responder reports confirm that.
1. So, out of where did the SARS strain very close to the wild virus came out from in the middle of a 10 million people megalopolis?
2. From where did the story about bats came out from to begin with?
3. It is now near certain that first reports of influx of respiratory patients happened as early as November, and it had nothing to do with the seafood market. If so, how media were first able to connect the dots to the market, and do it so quickly, and confidently?
4. The first report incriminating the market came out few weeks after first evidence of the government sending censorship directives, and instructions on outbreak handling to provincial authorities.
5. It means that a low key regional newspaper broke out a report at the same time when even a squeak about sars outbreak got people into trouble.
6. The amazing synchronicity with which top tier national medias republished the story of an obscure regional newspaper is clearly unnatural.
7. The way how zealously Chinese media came out to blast earliest reports doubting this outbreak originating from the seafood market even before that became news in the West stands out. Are all of them subscribed to the same obscure American academic journal?
8. Chinese government is no stranger to manufacturing bizarre hoaxes
Normally, this is not what Chinese government would cover up. The concealment of original SARS outbreak only happened after the fact of its existence becoming public.
What was covered up in 2003 was not its existence, but the lacklustre emergency response after it became clear that they completely screwed up.
Similarly, other natural disaster coverups only happened after it becoming clear that somebody screwed up.
I.E.: the Wenzhou train collision. The cover up was made not for screwup of signalling system designers, but to make the emergency response look "adequate." The guy wanted to render it a "small, manageable derailment accident," and not to show hundreds people dying on his hands while he did nothing.