Apparently COVID19 was started by a or bats. Why don't we just kill them all?.

[Wise Guy]

They are not good for anything and not the first time I hear bats are culprits of many deceases..

 

[cristy]

I hope you are joking...The title of your thread and into comment are both ignorant and misinformed. Read about bats and rabies that should help educate and answer your question. If mankind left nature alone and allowed it's species to live where they belong, we'd be far better off.Sorry wiseguy, we can only blame ourselves for this mess.

 

[ROBERTSON]

There are a number of diseases that we can get from different animals.

This is not the first time we have had to put up with viruses/diseases from commie China.

Plus, there is growing evidence Covid-19 originated in a government lab in the town in China were this virus originated.

A number of doctors mysteriously disappeared and or died from there, soon after it was made public, including the doctor who made it public

 

[Swagger]

It's no coincidence that some of the worst viral disease outbreaks in recent years -- SARS, MERS, Ebola, Marburg and likely the newly arrived 2019-nCoV virus -- originated in bats.

Read on: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200210144854.htm

 

[Swagger]

When it comes to carrying viruses that can jump to other species — so-called "zoonotic" viruses — bats may be in a class of their own. The flying mammals are reservoirs for more than 60 viruses that can infect humans, and host more viruses per species than even rodents do, new research shows.

"There seems to be something different about bats in terms of being able to host zoonotic infections," study researcher David Hayman, a wildlife epidemiologist at Colorado State University (CSU), told LiveScience

Read on: https://www.livescience.com/26898-bats-host-human-infecting-viruses.html

 

[Swagger]

Researchers compiled and analyzed databases of every virus identified in bats and rodents. They found that rodents host 179 viruses, 68 of which are zoonotic, while bats carry 61 zoonotic viruses, with 137 viruses in total. So, rodents win by a slight margin in carrying more human-infecting viruses, but bats host more zoonotic viruses per species — on average, each species of bat hosts 1.8 zoonotic viruses, while rodents host 1.48 viruses per species.

https://healthcareinamerica.us/what-makes-bats-the-perfect-hosts-for-so-many-viruses-3274c019bb4d

 

[Swagger]

Bats play a vital role in ecosystems around the world. They are a diverse group of animals accounting for over 20% of the world's mammals.

In the UK, bats are Indicator Species, because changes to our bat populations can indicate changes in aspects of biodiversity. For example bats might suffer when there are problems with insect populations (because our bats feed on insects) or when habitats are destroyed or poorly managed (for example, some bats only live in large woodlands).

In addition to their important roles in many environments around the world, bats have also been recognised as hosts of some viruses that can impact human health. These are called ‘zoonoses’ or 'zoonotic diseases' (human diseases originating in animals).

The transmission of a virus (or other vector of disease) from wild animals to humans is normally the result of human alterations to the environment. For example with bats, destroying their habitat (by deforestation and intensive building for example) and the intensification of livestock farming, can mean that bats are forced to live more closely to humans, livestock and pets than they would naturally.

This closer contact can result in cases of spillover of a virus into human populations either directly or via an intermediate host (e.g livestock).

https://www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/bats-and-disease

 

[ROBERTSON]

OR simply,... a shoddy commie Chinese lab is responsible for the leap to humans.

Healthy doctors don't often die in hospitals.

 

[Senor Gomes]

OR simply,... a shoddy commie Chinese lab is responsible for the leap to humans.

Healthy doctors don't often die in hospitals.

WHO has a lot of questions to answer.

 

[Analme]

WHO has a lot of questions to answer.

Trump is looking for scapegoats to mask his shotty performance during the pandemic. Sure WHO screwed up but this pandemic was a new hence NOVEL and they were misled by China. China new they had something serious happening and instead of warning everyone they played hide n seek.

 

[Signingin]

Trump is looking for scapegoats to mask his shotty performance during the pandemic. Sure WHO screwed up but this pandemic was a new hence NOVEL and they were misled by China. China new they had something serious happening and instead of warning everyone they played hide n seek.

No organization can be misled unless they want to be.