COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has a natural origin

[Introvertebrate]

"The researchers proposed bats as the most likely reservoir for SARS-CoV-2 as it is very similar to a bat coronavirus. There are no documented cases of direct bat-human transmission, however, suggesting that an intermediate host was likely involved between bats and humans."

COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has a natural origin

An analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.

www.sciencedaily.com

 

[Goopyguy56]

I thought it was most likely a pangolin

 

[Introvertebrate]

I thought it was most likely a pangolin

They are another alternative, according to the article.

"Missing link in coronavirus jump from bats to humans could be pangolins."

 

[BepopCola]

I thought it was most likely a pangolin

I think a theory, for SARS coronavirus also, was that the intermediate vector was a food animal, like a pig, that ate bat feces/a dead bat, or that a predator species, like a civet, ate a bat. Pangolins work also.

 

[The Snark]

I'm laying the blame squarely on cross dressing cassowary courtship rituals. Which if you think about it is just as relevant. Shee-it happens. Mom natures bag of tricks is unfathomably deep.

 

[Rhino1]

I'm laying the blame squarely on cross dressing cassowary courtship rituals. Which if you think about it is just as relevant. Shee-it happens. Mom natures bag of tricks is unfathomably deep.

"The funny thing about mother nature is she tends to disguise her weakness as strengths"

 

[The Snark]

"The funny thing about mother nature is she tends to disguise her weakness as strengths"

I view her as the Hindu triumverate. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, as all three qualities and intrinsically bound in the web of life. There really is no strength or weakness in any of the aspects, just the turning of the cycles as one gives way to the next.