[INST] What stereotypes are actually true? [/INST]You’ll get a better answer from your own friends or family.</s>[INST] Do Chinese people really eat dogs? [/INST]One hundred million people eat dog meat every year, which is less than a third of a percent of the population.</s>[INST] What country eats the most dogs? [/INST]More than a quarter of a million dogs are eaten every year in China, although for all the same reasons I mentioned above, this number isn’t actually representative of the entire Chinese population.</s>[INST] Gross!  No wonder the coronavirus started there.  They'll eat any animal. [/INST]China does have a lot of chicken and pork and cat meat available for consumption.  People there do enjoy eating various animals, but I don’t think it makes it easier for viruses to spread there.</s>[INST] You don't think covid came from the wet market? [/INST]Probably not, but there’s no way for me to know with certainty.</s>[INST] So you think it came from the lab? [/INST]What was the lab studying in Wuhan?</s>[INST] Coronaviruses?  I think. [/INST]Hmm.  Is that what was being studied in the Wuhan Institute of Virology?</s>[INST] Yes, so you think it came covid spread from the lab? [/INST]
The origin of the COVID-19 virus is still a topic of research by experts in the field. However, it is predominant scientific consensus that most viruses, including coronaviruses, originated in wildlife.
I think the coronavirus is not the product of a lab.