What are the conspiracy theories around COVID-19?

The US and Israel created coronavirus to attack foreign nations

Question: What are the conspiracy theories around COVID-19?
Position‹3 of 6›: COVID-19 is a man made biological weapon
Argument1 of 3›: The US and Israel created coronavirus to attack foreign nations

These governments developed the virus together to leverage their positions against both China and the Middle East.

The argument

Official representatives of the Chinese government have accused coronavirus of coming from the US government, being used as a bioweapon. A spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry tweeted saying that coronavirus might be in China because of the US military. One step further, Iran have accused the US and Israel of jointly creating the disease, in order to target Iranians.

Context

(ALERT: Visit the WHO for accurate information about the coronavirus pandemic) The Chinese government is pushing this conspiracy theory.

Premises

[P1]Chinese government officials have publicly accused the US military of bringing coronavirus to China. [P2] Iranian officials have accused the US and Israel of jointly engineering the virus to target Iranians. [P3] When multiple targeted nations independently identify the US and Israel as the source, this points to deliberate bioweapon deployment. [C] Therefore, COVID-19 is a man-made biological weapon created by the US and Israel to attack foreign nations.

Counter-arguments

"Scientists from multiple countries have published and analysed genomes of the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and they overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife, as have so many other emerging pathogens."

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] The premise records that an accusation was made, which is not evidence that it is true. The statement in question offered no data and no technical claim, and came while the origin of the outbreak was politically contested between the two governments; officials of a state are not a disinterested source about that state's own position. [Rejecting P2] The same applies, and with far less independence than the premise supposes. These were statements by governments in open confrontation with the United States, issued through state media and repeating an allegation already in circulation — transmission, not corroboration. [Rejecting P3] The inference is where the argument fails. Two governments echoing one claim are not two independent findings, and the genomic evidence runs the other way: researchers in multiple countries have sequenced and analysed SARS-CoV-2 and conclude that it originated in wildlife, as other emerging pathogens have. A deliberately deployed weapon would also be a remarkably poor one, having spread early and severely through the very countries alleged to have made it.