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Collected Item: “The Origin”

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The Origin

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Text story

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When the stories of this mysterious virus that was killing tons of people in China started popping up on the news, people thought that it had started from bats in a market. Now we know that this was a lie and that it really started in lab. I was kind of astonished that this huge disease started from a few small mammals that were carrying a virus. I was originally kind of confused that somehow a few people eating bats had started a world-wide pandemic.

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Bryson Fienup

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2021-01-12
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