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.

  • Sincerity [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I can understand a reflexive belief that things feel off.

    But we’ve known for a long time that SE/E Asia generally is an absolute hotspot for zoonotic diseases; mostly fairly inconsequential- but it’s a numbers game; SARS-CoV-2 happened to he extremely effective at what it does; infact passing into and out of various different hosts with apparent ease (eg. human-cat, human-mink-human). But it’s not a unique event, only very, very unlucky.

    Ultimately the failure of COVID lies not on China for being a point of origin of an incredibly unlucky event, but rather the utter hubris with which Europe and “the west” reacted with in response. Whilst China did the most effective public health action I have ever seen, Europe was focused on denying it was even a problem.

    • tagen
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      1 year ago

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