A speculative theory backed by purely circumstantial evidence gathered online of covid-19's origin is that chinese researchers investigating coronaviruses in bats working near the wet market in Wuhan had an accident and became infected, one who apparently disappeared and has been presumed dead.<p>I don't know if that's pure conspiracy theory nonsense, but it certainly seems risky to be doing this kind of thing:<p>> Free-ranging bats were captured, and rectal and oral swabs and guano samples collected for coronaviral screening<p>Especially considering the potential for asymptomatic spread...
Bats migrate. Migration brings species into contact with one another. (Even indirect contact such as sharing the same water source). With species in contact, viruses can spread. All this is perfectly normal.<p>What’s new here is that climate is changing, causing migration patterns to change, causing new interactions between species that previously did not interact. Some of which are eventually brought into contact with humans. Again none of this is new either, except for the climate change part. All of this could and did happen already without climate change, but climate change can turn things up a few notches by making migration pattern changes much more wide ranging than before.<p>So essentially what I am saying is it seems plausible that Covid-19 and its hit on the economy is one of the first “gifts” of global climate change. This seems to be right in front of our noses, but unnoticed by the whole world.
A recent interview with the last author, Dr. Jonna Mazet, former director of the pandemic intelligence project disestablished by the current administration in September 2019: <a href="https://katz.substack.com/p/audio-edition-the-pandemic-prevention" rel="nofollow">https://katz.substack.com/p/audio-edition-the-pandemic-preve...</a>
Note that coronavirus is a big family of virus, only a few (2?) are transmisible from human to human and also potentially deadly for humans. Most of the virus in the coronavirus family don´t infect humans or are not harmful. You may get just a normal cold, and you are fine a week later.<p>They found 6 new versions of coronavirus, but IIUC they are not harmful for humans. This is business as usual.