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NickPNW's avatar

If all the bats were killed, the world would be overrun with insects—bats are an important part of the ecosystem. Instead, scientists should be banned from harvesting bat corona viruses and conducting experiments to make them transmissible to humans.

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Dr. K's avatar

In China under Mao, they killed all the sparrows (2 billion I believe) because Mao thought they were making his centrally-planned agriculture fail. Of course, there was a massive famine because the sparrows had been eating all the bugs and, as reported, tens of millions of Chinese starved to death.

Assume if the government is doing it, it is either stupid or evil...and often both. The consequences are generally inimical to the populace. Why people stand still for it all has always amazed me. I suppose there is no cure for stupid.

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Andreas Oehler's avatar

Yeah, what did the bats do!

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pat hollingworth's avatar

Or even creating genetically engineered mosquitos now!!! Wow what a world

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