Want to blame the Chinese? Go ahead, they deserve lots of it, but apparently not for engineering and unleashing the virus. The layman's description of how it invades cells is moderately creepy, perhaps even terrifying:
https://www.foxnews.com/science/the-coronavirus-did-not-escape-from-a-lab-heres-how-we-know
https://www.foxnews.com/science/the-coronavirus-did-not-escape-from-a-lab-heres-how-we-know