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Re:Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was early epicenter of the... by rmetzler on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:50PM (#32252892)
The Wuhan lab used to catch wild bats and take virus samples from them. It’s not too far fetched someone sold the same bats to the market or was infected and infected other people / living animals there.
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Re:Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was early epicenter of the... by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:27PM (#32253457)
I still don't see why you think researches would resort to selling bats to a wet market to make a little extra money.

They'd be fired for sure if caught.

They also would make almost no extra money... The going rate for bats isn't much...

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Re:Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was early epicenter of the... by rmetzler on Saturday July 30, 2022 @06:36PM (#32291054)
There are more persons in a lab than only high qualified researchers. Cleaners for example. And one bat might not be much, but if your job is to dispose 20 or 50 of them and you can just go a few hundred meters and sell them to a vendor for a few bucks?

I don't say that is what actually happened there, I just think that this would be one possibility.

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