@brigrammer @gentoobro C19 IS natural, you are mislead. Go reread @Angie_rasmussen 's now multiple papers on this subject.

> A coronavirus generally cannot jump species

Covid is not a typical coronavirus -- it is capable of infecting via ACE2 which *is* conserved to a large extent across kingdom mamalia.

>- C19 was most likely created by serial passage/gain of function

No, it was not.

> But no matter how weird of a bug it is, it cannot do something done by an entirely different class of virus

Sure it can. It has continued to surprise us and probably hasn't even stopped donig so.

>. Bacteria are nothing like animal cells.

So? That doesn't mean that it's not possible to infect them. Covid also directly interacts with mitochondria dna. The same mechanism is involved there.