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At least temporarily during the epidemic, the Chinese government has banned the raising and consumption of wild animals. However, it appears the ongoing trend in China is to eliminate these practices.

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/china-makes-eating-wild-animal...

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Only this outbreak had nothing to do with the market, the index case had no connection.

It was still likely caused by consumption (preparation) of a wild animal like a pangolin or bat.

This is what I'm reading/hearing so far. After reviewing the DNA sequences available to date, experts determined the virus was unlikely to be a human created bioweapon, but instead a virus that jumped from a wild animal to humans. Supposedly the pangolin, but they haven't honed in exactly on which animal carried the original virus.

[0]: https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2020/01/13/novel-coron...

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/sars-cov-2-seqs/

I think your premise does not support your conclusion, because a bioweapon does not need to be engineered by humans.

A zoonotic virus could have been isolated and stored.

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