General
2020: The year in review with Alexandra Marshall
If we have learned anything from 2020, it’s ‘don’t eat bats’.
From Ebola to Covid, these winged Petri dishes have proved troublesome. In fact, it’s best for everyone if humans don’t touch bats at all. Don’t experiment on bats. Don’t crawl into bat caves looking for the next great pandemic. Don’t bring bats back to a slightly dodgy Level 4 bio lab. Don’t extract viruses from the kidnapped bats. Don’t take a ‘bat soup to go’ from the local wet market. Just – leave — the — bats — alone. Evolution made a mistake when it stitched wings onto rats. There is no need to make that situation worse.
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