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2021-01-12

COVID Origin

Covid had just started, and I was hearing news of a virus outbreak and places shutting down. In 2019 in Wuhan China there were rumors about someone eating a bat going around. The theory was that a man had eaten a bat and got sick and then spread it to other people. Another theory was about a laboratory in China. Many people including myself thought that inside a laboratory nearby there was some kind of explosion and the chemicals had made people sick. My beliefs haven't changed since then because I haven't heard a lot of new theories about how it had started. Overall, both of these theories do not seem too realistic and I was shocked when I found out about the possible reasons.