Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for March 19, 2020

This likely came from the poor conditions at the wet market slaughtering animals out in the open in the same general area as their meat was being sold .

Toon’s got it.

I looked it up & found this on Wikipedia: “COVID-19 infection[edit]Nucleic acid sequences of viruses taken from pangolins have been found to be a 99% match to those of the virus which causes COVID-19, SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and is responsible for the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.6263 The working theory of researchers in Guangzhou, China is that SARS-CoV-2 originated in bats and, prior to infecting humans, was circulating among pangolins. The illicit Chinese trade of pangolins for use in traditional Chinese medicine is suggested as a vector for human transmission.6264 Pangolins were eventually ruled out as the definitive source, namely the bridge that the virus used to jump from bats to humans, after it emerged that the 99% match did not actually refer to the entire genome, but to a specific site known as the receptor-binding domain (RBD).65 A whole-genome comparison had found that the pangolin and human viruses share only 90.3% of their DNA (at least 99.8% is needed for a conclusive match)65 Ecologists worried that the early speculation about pangolins being the source may have led to mass slaughters,[citation needed] endangering the animals further, which was similar to what happened to civets during the SARS outbreak.”

Pangolins. Yummy. (JK. Poor pangolins!)

Mmmmmmm. Bat snot …. eaten off a freshly-slaughtered armadillo-Lite. Mmmmmmmm.

Leave the poor Pangolins and Bats alone. Humans are their own worst enemy.

Can Batman save us from the bat virus?

Baba Yaga did it .

I run the dairy department for a grocery store and we are out of a lot more than just Twinkies

Did get milk in yesterday, eggs maybe today

Don’t even ask me about toilet paper

I still am convinced that a leaky BSL 4 lab in Wuhan allowed the virus being experimented upon to ride out on lab workers who spread that which was never intended to confront humans loose.

Looks like a malformed pine cone to me.

Careful, boys. Humans also eat raccoons, turtles and squirrels.

The way people are killing Pangolins they will not be around much longer anyway.

Only true if the pangolins work in the Wuhan biowarfare lab where they screwed up and released it…

Bats take the rap for stupid things humans do.

Yeah People apparently eat anteaters

A note: A VA hospital had bat boxes, and someone said get rid of the bats because of potential for rabies. Well the location was a formerly swamp area and was always thick with mosquitos spreading diseases, many of them, like malaria. Bats kept the insect populations down, and were doing far more good than “risk”, the boxes, and bats, were wisely retained for the safety of the patients.

A scientific paper has said it was more likely to have come via turtles as they’re sold openly in Wuhan markets and they act as a “virus reservoir, carrying more than dozens of viruses” whereas pangolins are only sold on the black market.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.25726