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why doesn't the bats have it?
I thought that the bat thing was only an unproven hypothesis? I.e nobody knows for sure where this virus came from.
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an unproven hypothesis
Not for me to say. But Jared Diamond seems happy to stake his reputation on it.
Vox made this explanation, but admits it's not yet conclusive. Vox can be a bit sensational, but my impression is that their fact checking is decent.EDIT: Neither source says bats in particular, just go a long way to suggest an animal origin.
My point being the same though. Why would be become immune to something that animals did not manage to fight off?
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I have been wondering; if herd immunity is a possibility at 60%, why doesn't the bats have it?
They live more clustered than perhaps any other mammal, so they should have become immune by now and have killed off the virus before it reached us through that extremely narrow channel that is a single food market in Wuhan. Which makes me think they probably couldn't build any such immunity... so why would we cope differently?