Pangolins have been removed from their natural habitats by PEOPLE and USED in many ways. But now, they are nearly extinct, and lead very fragile lives.
People have sold pangolins to other people for food and medicine, and put them in situations that endanger them. People have put pangolins into crowded markets with animals it was never meant to be near. There, it seems, is where it met bats.
The bats have lived for so very long with corona and they have pretty much kept it to themselves, and been immune to them. But the pangolin got corona from the bats... and somehow that made it easier for people to get it from pangolins. Now, people can get corona from each other. That is why we are all masking and social distancing.
But it all comes from something we might all be able to relate to a little bit....
the very common human feeling that we should be able to have whatever we want.
We must change.
We must honor nature's boundaries.
There are great consequences to the way people grab from nature whatever we want.
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