in early 2020, some people began to think that the sars-cov-2 may have been made on purpose in a laboratory and either released by accident or on purpose like a weapon. some iranians thought the americans might have made it. chinese state media said covid-19 came from the united states to china and not the other way around. some americans thought the chinese might have made it. some britons thought it might have been created by accident by 5g cell phone networks.