johnny skeptical - 9/14/2020 07:20
The overriding reason, or what the infectious disease experts blame it on, is the close proximity of people to hogs and chickens, and in the case of the corona virus, wildlife.
Influenza has snippets of genetic material from swine, humans and poultry, and each year when flu season comes around the vaccine manufacturers try to culture what is circulating in China to try to get a handle on what is gonna spread to the rest of the world.
Except this coronavirus came from a species of bat that was not sold in any wuhan wet markets and the closet ones are 1500km from wuhan. This virus did not come from eating a bat.