Yeah, at this point it is impossible to determine any intermediate host unless you have lucky backdated samples in a freezer someplace. And I'm still skeptical

Yeah, at this point it is impossible to determine any intermediate host unless you have lucky backdated samples in a freezer someplace. And I'm still skeptical that bats gave it directly to intermediate animals who gave it to people in a nice linear fashion. Humans going into mines (like the Mojiang miners) or bat guano farming could have become infected and given it to farmed animals that they were around first, and the pandemic could be the result of spillback once the virus got good at infecting humans (not needing to be particularly good at infecting the farmed animals because of massively crowded conditions).