[tindjinn]

Well, considering the all-seeing Chinese government practically owns Baidu and most other Chinese brands it is not very surprising that they're able to track individual users across multiple platforms. Location data is merely one tiny point on the vast graph of data they have access to.

[Dahoon]

But this isn't PRC but Harvard.

[beervirus]

It's a little surprising the PRC would let this unflattering data be available.

[cameldrv]

The official line now is that the virus didn't start in the seafood market. The bats that carry the closest viruses to SARS-CoV-2 are located 1000 miles south of Wuhan, and were in hibernation in November. For the theory that the virus was transmitted from a bat to a human in Yunnan to work, it needs to have happened earlier in the year.

[dificilis]

If the virus jumped from bat to some other animal 50 years ago, then the 1000 miles of distance is not hard to explain, and doesn't tell us anything about the time-scale of initial human infection.

We need to find the close relative of Covid19 (TMRCA < 1 year) in a non-human host.

[adventured]

There are a lot of points of data to scrub in such a large system, it's not surprising that they would miss numerous of them in the wild. Watch to see if this one disappears or not.