I'm not into conspiracy theories or gross speculation but I think the points in this video are a compelling case that it IS a man made virus and we (the world) should collectively take some sort of punitive action against the Chinese government. The Case against China: I don't know how to assess the scientific claims but he's saying: The Wuhan strain is a combination of 2 viruses one which can spread easily to humans from animals (but isn't dangerous) and one which is deadly but doesn't spread to humans and the dangerous one has parts of HIV embedded to enable human transmission and the chance of this occurring naturally are so astronomically small that it's basically impossible to be a natural evolution. Update: ---------- This article in Nature concludes it probably was natural mutations : Two quotes and So it's feasible that it was natural processes although no conclusive proof one way or the other. In the midst of the global COVID-19 public-health emergency, it is reasonable to wonder why the origins of the pandemic matter. Detailed understanding of how an animal virus jumped species boundaries to infect humans so productively will help in the prevention of future zoonotic events.
The genomic features described here may explain in part the infectiousness and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.