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Please, rouge is red. You meant rogue.

It's a perfectly normal bat virus that has difficulty infecting any mammals other than humans and mice genetically engineered to have human ACE2 receptors lining their respiratory system.

Jon Stewart made a great point:

This is the equivalent of rabidly, aggressively denying the possibility of the Hershey's factory having anything to do with the outbreak of "chocolatey goodness" in Hershey, PA.

The interpretation you stated is very one sided, and doesn't mesh with the author's own writing.

I don't think a lab leak needs to be connected in anyway with humans modifying the virus. It could easily been the case that these bats were studied in this lab without modification and a leak occurred.