And you also don't have to take my word for it that virologists were concerned! See all these scientific review articles demonstrating that fact:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11779380/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29270793/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26654122/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30806904/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16940861/ (this one says wet markets, which probably are an issue, but not as big as initially thought, and probably not the origin of CoV-2)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26922715/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27726088/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26689940/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27426214/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30832341/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19906932/