Raccoon dogs

For those of you who only listen to Rand Paul's incoherent drivel, here's an actual scientific article with references about COVID19 origins.

If interested in actually preventing future pandemics and controlling disease, it's better to use facts and not political piss fights.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454

I should also post this article, which is a lot more accessible to non-science folks and lays out the problems with lab leak theory vs. natural spillover quite nicely.

... What are the odds that, if the virus did emerge from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the first known cases would show up more than eight miles away, in a market complex across a river from the putative site of any “laboratory-associated incident”? Now factor in that this market complex, in particular, is known to have trafficked in live wild mammals as recently as November 2019; and that Chinese health officials had taken an Australian virologist to this same market five years earlier, telling him, as he recalled in a recent interview with Qiu, that it was “a possible place that could trigger future outbreaks”; and also that most of the cases from Huanan were confined to the market’s western section, which, according to the joint pandemic-origins study by China and the World Health Organization, housed seven of the 10 stalls from which wildlife products were sold. What are the odds?