> The most expensive meal a person ever ate was in late 2019, in China, and consisted of under-cooked bat meat. It cost trillions of dollars. The person who ate

> The most expensive meal a person ever ate was in late 2019, in China, and consisted of under-cooked bat meat. It cost trillions of dollars. The person who ate it, possibly a peasant, changed the course of the 21st century. The bat he ate contained a virus, and the virus threatened to spread from this man to the rest of humanity. Is there any evidence for the suggestion that patient zero consumed bat/pangolin meat, or that you need to consume bat/pangolin meat to get infected (as opposed to say, being near them)? To my knowledge this is still a speculation [1] and there is no concrete evidence. Linking coronavirus to Chinese culture and food habits will only lead to more Sinophobia. I'm also not sure what the author is trying to accomplish by talking about the Holocaust. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00548-w https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00548-w