WHO now says Coronavirus did not come from China

Originally it was thought to come from a wet market in Wuhan called the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market where bats were being sold. The virus was studied back then and didn't appear to have been cobbled together in a laboratory. The pandemic's predicted path was accurate as was it's rate and mode of infection. In other words, who cares.
 
I can't help but think of the lyrics to the Irish Rovers classic, Unicorn.

There were green alligators and long necked geese
Some humpty-back camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and Covid bats, but sure as you're born
The loveliest of all was the Unicorn
 

Pepper said:
Why did there have to be an intermediary animal? Years ago, in NH, I knew a woman who fed bats, many times by hand. She wanted bats around because they ate the bugs.
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From most of what I've read, the intermediary animals have closer contact with bats than humans do (including eating their guano, whether intentionally or while grazing adjacent vegetation).

Most people are skeeved out by bats and avoid touching them. Your friend was a rarity.
 
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At some point in the past ( 20+ years ago), I read something about what food is often on the menu in restaurants in China. It might have been in National Geographic. The story was geared toward the environmental aspects of what animals were on the menu and the effect on the ecosystem. The Primary focus of the article was how bats get a bad rap and in fact, are beneficial to humans and the environment as a whole.

Would bats have been kept in the market for that purpose ? Could that be the common factor in transmission to another species? There are many animals that westerners don't eat, pangolins, snakes and bats included. I don't recall if it was regional or even widespread practice. I haven't been following the covid-19 origin story so this is just my personal musing.
 
Oris Borloff said:
At some point in the past ( 20+ years ago), I read something about what food is often on the menu in restaurants in China. It might have been in National Geographic. The story was geared toward the environmental aspects of what animals were on the menu and the effect on the ecosystem. The Primary focus of the article was how bats get a bad rap and in fact, are beneficial to humans and the environment as a whole.

Would bats have been kept in the market for that purpose ? Could that be the common factor in transmission to another species? There are many animals that westerners don't eat, pangolins, snakes and bats included. I don't recall if it was regional or even widespread practice. I haven't been following the covid-19 origin story so this is just my personal musing.
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Yes, I think I saw the same documentary. It showed how illness can be transferred from animals to humans by the consumption of sick animals. The Aids virus is said to have originated in chimps and been transferred to humans who ate chimp meat.
 
Saw this on the News in South Australia today -
"BEIJING (Reuters) - A new form of African swine fever identified in Chinese pig farms is most likely caused by illicit vaccines, industry insiders say, a fresh blow to the world’s largest pork producer, still recovering from a devastating epidemic of the virus."
China has a LOT to answer for
 
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