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RE: What If They're Not 100% Right About The Way Covid-19 Is Transmitted?

in OCD5 years ago

G4 is particularly concerning and yes, stopping with consuming meat is a sensible call. I'm very happy to have made it. As I said, we were already 95% that way before Covid, for health, ethics and cruelty reasons.

The thing is G4 is already inside China and the testing is NOT - it's only mandated for imported animals and meat from external known epidemic hotspots . Along with the amped up track'n'trace. Interestingly there is a case in Brabandt - in my mother country Holland, where a farm worker purportedly gave Covid to minks in a mink farm, who gave it to other minks, who gave it back to other workers.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01574-4

Clearly it's an evolving scenario. But, in my mind at least, there is a lot of evidence (albeit circumstantial) to suggest that meat contributes to the spread of Covid.

I think people need to consider that so they can make informed personal choices.

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Thanks for the interesting article! The testing might have to do with fear of mutation in 2nd and 3rd wave infections from other countries back into China. The article below is about cross-species transmission. Yes, COVID-19 most likely live in different types of meat.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25682

There is also a theory about the earlier virus carried back by American soldiers during their training in Wuhan before the outbreak to be even more virulent (aggressive) than existing ones in China. Viruses are complicated as they mutate at different rates within different organisms and different environment. When they mutate, researchers need to readjust vaccine formulation and target region to induce immunity.

Here is the article about the L strain (aggressive) and S strain (less aggressive) within China itself.
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-mutations.html
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/7/6/1012/5775463