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Link to the study https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00353-8
Article is paywalled, so thanks for posting the actual study. This section seems in direct conflict with the article's title:
In sum, the study doesn't challenge that Covid-19 originated in Wuhan; but instead, explores the genetic backgrounds of the bats with the closest links to Covid-19.
Ah so it was a leak from the biggest bioweapon lab of all, the natural world where things evolve to kill other things.
I'm not going to comment on the wildlife food trade in China because I don't know that much about it, but just wanted to point out that nearly all of history's worst diseases have something to do with humans wanting to eat meat. And it's happening again with that new bird flu we're completely unprepared for. Might be something to look into if we're concerned about humanity going extinct from a global pandemic ¯\(ツ)/¯
Nearly all of history's worst diseases have come from animals, and animals have those diseases whether we eat them or not. Factory farming certainly enhances the danger, but cows don't stop existing just because we don't eat beef. There is, however, also an upside to meat consumption: being around/eating animals all the time also builds up your immune system's defenses against diseases that originate in those animals. See: indigenous people in the Americas dying in droves to diseases they had no immunity to because they didn't farm/ranch animals. I mean and also the smallpox blankets, but you get my point.
Humans need to go close to the infected animal to get infected.
Oh, so being exposed to new viruses reduces the risk of dying to a virus you got … because you were exposed to it?
To some extent yes, but 'get close to' is pretty broad: breathe contaminated air in the general vicinity of animals, drink water they've pissed or shit in, etc.
That is in fact how a vaccine/our immune system works, yes.
Don't go near animals. Boil water before drinking. Simple as.
Vaccines work using either diluted toxins, or increasingly, proteins / RNA that just look somewhat like the real thing. The immune system works by enough of the population dying off until only those with the necessary mutations are left.