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1. dathin+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-12-31 10:23:58
Going from:

The often believed but not proven

>"start of this pandemic was in 'Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market' in Wuhan."

To:

> It was produced in a Lab.

Is IMHO a fully unreasonable jump of conclusions. Given that analysis in the recent year showed that the virus spread much earlier and initially undetected to the EU it is quite feasible that the epidemic in China started earlier and potential in different places then Wuhan.

Also one big point ignored is both pangolin and bat are captured (sometimes alive) and kept/transported potentially close together. So even if there is a natural place where they would interact there are "unnatural" places created by the nature of the (not just seafood) marked in Wuhan...

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2. mytail+u1[view] [source] 2020-12-31 10:38:27
>>dathin+(OP)
I believe that the preferred theory at the moment is that MERS originated in bats and was transmitted to camels before jumping to humans.

Bats can easily come in close contacts with people and cattle even when they are not actively hunted.

You also make a good point that we're discovering very early cases in the EU and US, which show that this all started earlier than the explosion in Wuhan.

I seem to recall reading articles suggesting that the jump to humans may have occurred more than a year before Wuhan.

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