This is false, China has actively denied the existence of the virus until it was too late. The scientist who discovered it could have been a new kind of virus was blackmailed and threatened. The numbers China released were mostly false.
If you look at the locality of happenstance, the lab escape is more than worth looking into. Just because search engines are bombing anything with regard to it to the bottom of search results, and press farms are working hard at propagating the zoonotic origin without touching on any of the impracticalities inherent to making that full set of connections feasible does not mean the information is not out there to be found.
I think you’re just engaging in conspiracies here.
It’s possible that China’s central CDC ordered the local samples to be destroyed, because the local facility was not authorized or equipped, to handle infectious diseases properly.
Think of it this way. Do you want junior high school kids, handling contaminated biowaste, where the probability or risk of infection is very high.
And this was at the very beginning, when the science behind this virus and disease was not fully known.
It’s safer to throw the samples into a fire furnace, than to risk transporting it or storing it, where its leakage could further infect more people.
Ok, then. Bavaria had beer festivals in February and March, Austria kept Ischgl open and infected most of Europe. Other regions let the German carnival running. Leipzig had Champions League match. All in Feb and March. Just from top of my head.
At least local Chinese authorities still had the benefit of doubt. And did we already forget how fast they built hospitals and how many people the tested?
Normalized working/eating close to all animals, wet markets, pollution, lack of food care (incl refridgeration), unclean water, and more all make for a hotbed of potential disease.