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Re:Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the... by adrianb on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:17AM (#26646866)
Not impossible, but how plausible is that a farmer sells his animals in a single location in a big city more than 1000 km away? More likely the animals would be sold closer to his farm or sold in multiple big cities igniting separate outbreaks with distinct lineages.
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Re:Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the... by Loughla on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:22AM (#26646923)
In my experience, it is relatively plausible that the animals are sold in a single location, that far away. Granted, this is absolutely anecdata, but it does prove a point.

My experience: For decades, my father, my grandfather, and my great grandfather sold cattle via the Chicago markets. This is a trip of around 1000 km. This also originally started when our part of the US would have been no different than a very backwater part of a developing nation. No roads, no rail, no infrastructure, really, until you got to within 400-500 km of Chicago from where we live. And yet, they moved cattle that far to one single marketplace.

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