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Facebook sort-of blocks anti-quarantine events – how many folks are actually behind these 'massive' protests online?

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Re: What will Trump do

"I don't the idea that COVID-19 originated from a wet market with dubious sanitary condition from China is that much of a conspiracy theory"

It goes one step deeper. If it WAS a bat that hosted the virus, it could have been something that circulates in the bat population and rarely affects them. Trapping a bat and butchering it for human consumption might have been the point of first contact between humans and a mutation that affects humans. A customer or vendor at the market shares it with more people and they do the same and you have a breakout. I'm just saying that the virus didn't originate in the market. The market was just a good jumping off point for it.

If somebody in the bush caught an infectious bat and ate it, they could become ill and die without spreading it any further than their own family or tribe and that mutation strain could have ended right there. Greater population density and faster travel provide a positive feedback path to combat a species' over success. This sort of thing happens a lot when a native predator is wiped out. Their prey population explodes and often goes through boom and bust cycles with disease culling the herd in place of the predator.

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