Given the choice of a virus being genetically modified so well that not one person can spot a single sign of it, or that millions of unsafe consumption habits happen weekly in plain sight, I will go with the unsafe food as a higher probability.

Your choice doesn't have to be so binary.

It's a badass virus, it's known to infect these bats, located a long way from Wuhan, they sent a team to get some bats to study in the lab..
Just because it's not a Frankenstein sewn together in a lab doesn't mean it didn't come OUT of the lab.

So the options are weaponized, malice, negligence, carelessness or slave ship ??? Some combination of these.

Good enough, pay a 5T penalty and we're cool if its just negligence, careless slave ship, and make it 20T if its malice or higher.

Cool.
Srinath.