It's as natural as Dolly's torso.
Ironically, I am not convinced they DELIBERATELY released it.
This was most likely a case of a solitary scientist, working on a KNOWN designer pathogen, breaking protocol and it escaping organically.
I conveyed at the time China feared economic ruin and wanted to redistribute the fiscal fallout to the rest of the globe. Unsurprisingly, that has now been established and accepted by everybody but the usual suspects and propagandists. Even a member of the UN has went rogue and admitted as such.
Not bad for a lowly message board. Maybe jock-sniffing is in this year.