SvennoJ said:
Nighthawk117 said:
SJ...Let me ask you a simple question or two....
1. Do you believe this virus originated in Wuhan China?
2. Do you believe this virus originated in a wet market? |
I guess you mean me.
I think it originated in China, not necessarily in Wuhan but close to.
The Pangolin cross over story looks plausible to me, but it could have been civets (again) as well.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00548-w
Direct infection from bats is not plausible, nor an engineered virus or lab experiment/accident.
Civets were the intermediate host for the outbreak in 2003
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/24/china.sars
One of China's first confirmed Sars patients, Huang Xingchu, 34, worked as a cook in a Shenzhen restaurant.
Both Civets and Pangolins are used for consumption, Pangolins are also used in traditional medicine.
Somewhere between capture, transport, wet market, preparation and consumption, someone got infected.
It seems likely the first version of Sars-Cov-2 was already around at the end of October near or in Wuhan. The first confirmed case of covid-19 was there on November 17th, 2 weeks after the games ended, and it seems more and more likely that military athletes already brought the virus back to Europe and North America after the games ended.
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SvennoJ, thank you for your answers to my questions, and thank you for your charts.
I have one last question for you, and it is based on your previous answers....
Do you believe the world would be better off if China shut down its wet markets?
