11-25-2021, 09:35 PM
(11-25-2021, 08:26 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: The Chinese claim it came from a wet market from people eating bats.
Haven’t the Chinese always eaten bats, meaning that someone would have already gotten it before the pandemic if it really did come from bats?
Doesn’t that prove that it had to have been created in a lab?
No. Coronavirus has been around for decades, originating in the 1960’s in humans but first identified in animals back in the 1920’s. There have been other coronavirus outbreaks in humans, several of them also originating from bats as well. They just never got to this level. The following coronavirus strains have had human outbreaks and originated from bats…
—MERS-CoV https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome–related_coronavirus
—HCoV-NL63
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_coronavirus_NL63
—SARS-CoV-1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_1
