07-29-2020, 06:17 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-29-2020, 06:20 PM by CardinalSagehen.)
(07-29-2020, 10:50 AM)OutsiderFan Wrote: Shot: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4
Chaser: https://www.pnas.org/content/102/39/14040
OK.. So Nature is out with a study that identifies SARS-CoV-2 as coming from Horseshoe Bats. Three methods were used to come to same conclusion.
To me, that's not even the most interesting thing I found today.
When Googling Horseshoe Bat, I came to the chaser link. It's a 2005 study that was aiming to identify the source of the original SARS virus. Turns out researchers looking for SARS, actually found "a SARS-like" virus that wasn't exactly it, in Horseshoe Bats. So way back in 2005, researchers found what we now call SARS-CoV-2 living in these Horseshoe Bats, but nobody thought much of it because it wasn't the actual SARS virus being sought out at the time.
All these people coming up with wild conspiracy theories about it being made in a lab because it is new, when the reality is it was found 15 years ago, but nobody thought anything of it because it wasn't the virus infecting humans at the time, makes me smile. Truth: Those who said SARS-CoV-2 had to be lab made because it is different from all known viruses, were simply ignorant to the fact it had in fact first been found 15 years ago.
Can we now agree to exterminate all Horseshoe Bats?
Somehow this must all be Bill Gates’ fault, right? ;-) He probably spent billions breeding Horseshoe Bats to spread the virus.