yeah, it's really quite an interesting virus, thats for certain

I'm getting the idea that genetically engineered pigs in china were perhaps involved in some sort of recombination in the wild

The M ( membrane ) protein in it, is most closely related ( The homology ) to more pig viruses than anything ( PRRSV, etc )

china's been using genetically engineered pigs since the early 90's, and had to keep developing vaccines because the viruses had to keep evolving to attack the genetically engineered pigs, in turn helping the viruses to become more virulent

..much in the same way bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics

But where they say the horseshoe is the source of the coronavirus

you have to ask, ...what do horseshoe bats eat ?

The eat insects, mainly

and china has ( or had ) vast pig farms.....huge

but we all saw the pig viruses wiping out their pork industry ( and most of of saw the animals being buried and or burned in pits )

so....if you've ever been on a pig farm ( I have ), you know how many bats come out at night because of all the fucking insects coming to feed on the nasty shit you encounter on pig farms


so between bats, insects, pig farms, recombination and vaccines.....it would have made a perfect environment for the virus to evolve naturally....

....except that strange Herpesvirus-8 cancer virus protein (ORF10)that muffles the cellular immune system from putting out the call for help ( the reason for the long asymptomatic periods )

.....that's a weird one to find in a virus that had evolved in an environment with pigs and bats


..............

dunno at this point, it's a very odd virus.....perfect storm

it's the locus of many things that normally are not that bad by themselves

but when combined together.......very bad

very very bad