[ExI] pangolin?

[SR Ballard]

Pangolins are natural reservoirs of Coronavirus anyway. 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-52048195

Pangolin: 

“Most pangolins are nocturnal animals which use their well-developed sense of smell to find insects. “

Compare bats:

“Many bats are insectivores, and most of the rest are frugivores (fruit-eaters). A few species feed on animals other than insects; for example, the vampire bats feed on blood. Most bats are nocturnal”

Thought experiment:

Corona bat, of fruit or insect variety is eating some insects around fruit tree and poops. Pangolin walks in it when going to eat the same insects. We know fecal-oral is a transmission route. Now pangolin gets trafficked into wet market. 

SR Ballard

> On Apr 16, 2020, at 8:53 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> A Kennedy post from a few days ago has been rattling around in my brain like a golf ball in a 55 gallon drum.
>  
> There was a piece of DNA from a pangolin and bat DNA in Covid-19?  Is there a resource somewhere written in language a space guy can understand?  That is astonishing, and even suggests something done in a lab. 
>  
> Or what if… mosquito bites pangolin, bat devours mosquito, somehow the virus mutates inside bat, bat perishes, cage cleaner takes dead bats to wet market, humans devouring bat soup catch virys, Chinese cover it up, WHO covers for Chinese, virus spreads to every country on the globe, American press leverages the tragedy to political advantage, hospitals overcount for financial reasons, economies across the globe suffer a crushing blow, the consequences of which will be felt for a generation.
>  
> Mr. Kennedy, how can pangolin DNA and bad DNA get in that virus together?  Is that what you posted earlier?  Or did I misunderstand (entirely possible I goofed that completely) or misinterpret?
>  
> spike
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