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In reply to the discussion: Wuhan Market Samples Contained Covid and Animal Mixtures, Report Says [View all]Bucky
(55,334 posts)4. What's interesting is this potentially locates the spread from both the wet market AND the lab.
If the lab brought the virus in for study, then both locales may have contributed to the spread of the virus. Even transporting the infected samples to the lab may have given the virus plenty of opportunities to move to new hosts
These debates between wet market vs lab origin might be the equivalent of an eclipse debate being between those who say "the moon moved in front of the sun" and those who say "the sun moved behind the moon."
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My experiences eating out, or in, in China were very different from yours, I guess.
HUAJIAO
Mar 2023
#8
What's interesting is this potentially locates the spread from both the wet market AND the lab.
Bucky
Mar 2023
#4
If you are referring to the swabs collected in mid-Jan mentioned in the lede, then fussing about
RockRaven
Mar 2023
#7
what's the connection of why it is named as it is and you bolding "19" ?? i don't get it. nt
orleans
Mar 2023
#19
Because it was named Coronavirus Disease 2019 due to starting in 2019, shortened to Covid19
wishstar
Mar 2023
#22
The public weren't too worried about the workers or animals after The Jungle
IronLionZion
Mar 2023
#42
It should be noted that in mid-2019 the GOP recalled our scientists embedded in China's CDC
NullTuples
Mar 2023
#16