Studies link COVID-19 to wildlife sales at Chinese market, find alternative scenarios extremely unlikely
www.sciencedaily.com
Analyses based on locations and viral sequencing of early COVID-19 cases indicate the pandemic started in Huanan market in Wuhan, China, with live animals being sold at the market as the likely source. Genomic studies revealed that the SARS-Cov-2 virus jumped into humans on at two separate occasions.

All up not the worst outcome.

Best outcome would have been that it was already spreading globally (as suggested by wastewater analysis) and China just detected it first.

Next best would be that it was brought into the wet market, but by a person.

Slightly worse is if it jumped from animals at the market, as that vindicates the racists. <— we are here

Worse than that is accidental lab leak of natural virus.

Worse still is accidental lab leak of manufactured virus.

Worst of all is intentional release of manufactured virus.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I know it's anecdotal, but in November of 2019 my partner caught a respiratory illness from a coworker who had recently gone on a European vacation

    It lasted over three weeks, she was in severe respiratory distress, couldn't taste anything and could barely move around

    I took her to the hospital a couple of times, her doctors ran a bunch of tests and basically shrugged it off since they didn't know what it was (one of them prescribed her cough medicine that just ended up making things worse)

    Even after the worst of it, she couldn't breathe well for almost three months afterwards and would hack up little mucousy blood clots if she did anything more strenuous than basic walking

    We got no real evidence that it was COVID-19 or some precursor variant, but it certainly seemed like it