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Collected Item: “The Cause of Covid”

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The Cause of Covid

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Text Story

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

When covid started, I wondered how this virus started. A lot of rumors went around and then I got my final answer. That a person ate a bat. There was many theories of other things but the more I asked people who knew a lot about the virus, the more I got the answer about the bat. It made me really think about how a lot of diseases come from animals. I was also wondering how the bat got the virus but I don't know for sure how it carried it. I also thought why would someone eat a bat. It just is super weird to me. Reflecting back on when I figured this out, it really hit me how crazy one bat, started this whole pandemic.

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#bat, #odd, #covid, #corona

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Shane Hughes

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0020-01-12T00:35:07
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