"If someone were seeking to engineer a new coronavirus as a pathogen, they would have constructed it from the backbone of a virus"
That is correct. Unbeknown to those when spreading this ridiculous conspiracy is that they're actually debunking their own myth... example from the Saturday Telegraph quoted in the title thread;
"It can also be revealed the Australian government trained and funded a team of Chinese scientists who belong to a laboratory which went on to genetically modify deadly coronaviruses that could be transmitted from bats to humans and had no cure."
