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PBS interviewed a biology scientist who actually went into bat caves in China and trapped bats to test for SARS. He said in his opinion, this Covid is transmitted similar to SARS: bats trapped -> 'wet market' -> sold as food for poor people who eat wild game. And in the market the bats are held, live, in awful sanitation stacked in cages above live Civet cats (also wild game) and live pigs, allowing cross contamination before the game meat is sold to the public, and pigs are slaughtered - without good sanitation - by commercial butchers or restaurants. He said research is testing this hypothesis, but he suspects the public butchers and restaurants are where Covid reached the public. He also noted China has shut down wet markets and sale of wild game for food.
A theory I think that may explain some things: people in Wuhan have lived under awful air pollution all their lives so as they age, they are very vulnerable to an illness that congests the lungs. Their death rate seems to have levelled off, possibly because with the economy there at a standstill the air is clean for the first time in peoples' lifetimes.
Here, it seems to be the elderly, perhaps also those with breathing difficulty, who are dying disproportionately. So we may not see a death rate anywhere near as serious as Wuhan because fewer here have had pollution or smoking stress comparable to Wuhan.
Pollution drops in Wuhan
Dropping mostly because they aren't producing any hard goods. So, it's a temporary thing. I read somewhere that the CO levels are way up from all the cremations going on there. Chinese don't bury their deceased, the cremate them because there is no land for direct burial. No room. People there live in high rise apartments, again, no room.
