Could a Raccoon Dog be the Origin of COVID? So says new Evidence

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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/?utm_source=apple_news


"This week, an international team of virologists, genomicists, and evolutionary biologists may have finally found crucial data to help fill that knowledge gap. A new analysis of genetic sequences collected from the market shows that raccoon dogs being illegally sold at the venue could have been carrying and possibly shedding the virus at the end of 2019. It’s some of the strongest support yet, experts told me, that the pandemic began when SARS-CoV-2 hopped from animals into humans, rather than in an accident among scientists experimenting with viruses.
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1. I think it was Colonel Mustard in the Library with a lead pipe.

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ENOUGH already.

You cannot put toothpaste back in the tube, you cannot unring a bell, and closing the barn door after the horses have escaped is pointless. As is this relentless echo chamber of HOW the COVID-19 virus began or originated. It makes no difference.

Odds are, we will never know the answer. The best we can do is treat it.

The most commonly held belief is that it came from contaminated, unregulated street food markets in Wuhan. If most Americans could see the open, wet market stalls in Chinese cities and rural areas, their heads would explode. There is no regulation of these markets nor of what they sell. And they sell everything from peacock meat to fish eyes to bear sperm, and everything in between, including dog, cat and horse meat. Yes, bats, too. Animals are slaughtered and hung on ropes across stall areas, dripping blood, out in the open air as people walk by. Raw fish and new produce lie side by side, stacked on unclean counters.

For the uninitiated, it is a gob-smacking, eye-popping experience. Something you cannot unsee. And once you've seen it, it is not at all difficult to believe that COVID came from such a source. The article in The Atlantic is a must read on this one.

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2. A lot of that stuff isn't cooked all that thoroughly, either, since fuel has always been

in rather short supply in most of China. Acquaintances came back with some rather nasty parasites from undercooked pork and fish. I was totally unsurprised when the first cases were traced to a wet market, I'd heard about them. Your description meshes with theirs.

Wholesale markets can be bloody, slimy and gross, but they don't come anywhere near what's in Asia.