Doesn't it come from bats?

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According to the plaintiff’s complaint, the ultrahazardous activity was the location of a chemical and biological weapons lab in Wuhan near the epicenter of the origin of the virus, the Wuhan Fish Market. While the complaint stops short of alleging the virus was made there and purposefully released, it does imply that it may have originated in the lab and that it is customary that lab animals used in testing are customarily sold to street vendors at the Wuhan Fish Market.

The first I heard about it was through an article where they compared a lab to Resident Evil's umbrella cooperation lol.

Though I don't rule out the bat thing either.

@everyone I know there's some complicated biology in there but pls give a brief scan of link in Nature Medicine (one of the best biomedical journals in the world), with research conducted by independent scientists from three different countries. I wish I had the time to summarise it properly but long story short, they looked at the virus's genome and it has zero features that a virus with artificial origin would have. It's not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.

Basically: new viruses get "made up" by nature all the time, via processes like antigenic shift and genetic reassortment. It often happens in animal reservoirs before eventually being passed on to humans. Covid-19 and HIV (which was "made up" in non-human primates before being passed to humans in the early 20th century) are just two examples among many. The most likely natural reservoir for Covid-19 is bats, given its close genetic similarity to bat coronaviruses, though pangolins could have also been an intermediate host. It's called 'zoonotic transmission' and it's an incredibly common way for infectious diseases to emerge.

Plagues aren't exactly new in the history of humanity lol. This defs doesn't need a conspiracy behind it, and in fact, all the evidence is saying otherwise.

Infectious respiratory diseases come around every so often - it's basically inevitable given how many there are out there, across all mammals. We just have to be prepared for when they do. Unfortunately, it's been shown that we're woefully underprepared. Hopefully governments will stop slashing public health research and preventative measures in future and have better plans in place for the literal inevitability that an infectious respiratory illness will emerge.

Are you kidding me with this nonsense?

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Y'all the results of this poll are making me sad

I was vaguely considering making a poll about vaccination but I don't think I even wanna see the results to that. Gonna live on in blissful ignorance.