> The bats were eaten by an intermediary animal, likely the pangolin. Uhhh.https://twitter.com/UngeheuerDarin/status/1401992628028297218 …
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What’s more likely, leaked from a lab studying coronaviruses, or an insectivorous animal ate a bat?
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Replying to @TEDxHamster
Regardless, it's striking that the Chinese still have not identified the long posited intermediate animal after all this time. You know every animal in that market was examined.
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Generally bat-origin viruses tend to spread in the intermediate host quite a bit before they are discovered affecting humans. Nipah and Hendra viruses key examples.
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they had more than one instance of confirmed zoonotic transmission with SARS, they found the virus in live palm civets - reading about that case, you see how vastly different and weird everything about SARS-2 has been
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The likelihood of a virus going bat-pangolin-human and then becoming human-to-human transmissible without being discovered in any of the supposed source populations seems remarkably low if not impossible.
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also there are weird anomalies with the pangolin coronavirus evidence, begins to feel like an attempt to force a zoonosis narrativehttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.07.184374v2.full …
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