Recovered environmental viral genomes (A20 = lineage A; F54, F13, B5 = lineage B) place the market’s viral diversity at the root of the pandemic tree rather than downstream of it. Presence of both lineages at the market argues against the market outbreak being merely a lineage-B superspreading amplification of prior community transmission. Rests on the early-genome collection (D-3) plus the market metagenomic reads.