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Re:For experts who study coronaviruses, a grim vindication by oasisbob on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:06PM (#23457799)
In other words, you think someone in China ate a bat and made the world sick?
Re:For experts who study coronaviruses, a grim vindication by maemilius on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:16PM (#23458483)
My understanding of the extant research is that SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to pangolins to humans in wet markets in China that sold "farmed" wildlife.

In short, yes. Wet, wildlife markets in China were the source of this outbreak.