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by newacct583 1904 days ago
> And despite the tens of thousands of people rubbing bat turds in their eyes the first cases come from people living in the middle of a massive city.

Uh... yeah. Because massive cities have, y'know, more people mixing together with more varied activies. It would be very surprising indeed if a new pandemic just happened to pop up in a tiny hamlet in rural Tibet. But cities are absolutely where we expect to see this happen.