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The alternative to me will be a rural farmer caught the disease through extensive farming. Contamination from a wild animal, directly or through livestock. It
by aaron695 7y ago
The alternative to me will be a rural farmer caught the disease through extensive farming. Contamination from a wild animal, directly or through livestock.
It then kicked around for months in a rural location, a lower R perhaps, with better weather conditions and less networked people. People died and family's moved on.
Until someone on a trip to the city passed it on.
Perhaps selling at the markets or perhaps to family there who then took it to the market through work or just shopping.
I would not write off the Lab theory, it's better than bats at a market, but there are other logical theories as well.
- rcnewrefcellnew 7y agoI haven't attempted to verify this myself but one criticism that has been addressed against that theory is that the closest place which has these bats in the wild is 900 km from Wuhan, and that people are not generally in close contact with bats since that normally requires going deep into dark caves.