24 Nov 21
@sonhouse saidInteresting article. I thought you might would have wanted to post that in "Science" not "Debates".
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-coronavirus-british.html
Bats are where they came from in China so now a second batch is brewed.
I am unable, however to decode your comment...🙁
24 Nov 21
@sonhouse saidI’m sure we will refrain from doing any gain of function research on them 🤞🤞and we sure won’t be eating them so “Stay calm and carry on”.
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-coronavirus-british.html
Bats are where they came from in China so now a second batch is brewed.
25 Nov 21
@Ponderable
Just going by the word the first batch came from bats that were harvested for food getting into human contact and now another bunch of bats with some variant.
25 Nov 21
@sonhouse saidPeople harvested bats to eat them?
@Ponderable
Just going by the word the first batch came from bats that were harvested for food getting into human contact and now another bunch of bats with some variant.
26 Nov 21
@pawnpaw saidYeah sounds potentially very scary, more transmissible than Delta and it may circumvent current vaccines.
And a new covid virus variant is detected in South Africa. No greek name allocated yet.
B.1.1.529
https://www.nicd.ac.za/new-covid-19-variant-detected-in-south-africa/
Is present in Botswana and Zimbabwe as well.
27 Nov 21
@shavixmir
Yep, I guess the little buggers are some kind of delicacy in that part of China anyway. I think snakes were involved also.