I don’t agree with all of their theology, but this piece was interesting, especially if the Chinese Virus came from them eating bats.
There is a book titled ‘None of These Diseases’. It goes into great detail about all the benefits of following the OT prohibitions about certain foods. Whether one aligns themself theologically with the Bible or the Torah, the benefits are still there.
The very large bats, foxbats and such, may not even be related to the bats we normally think of. They have physical characteristics more like primates and may actually be an off branch of Primates way back when.
As stated by me last night: They {viruses} present a challenge to the body's immune system to formulate a countermeasure that does not injure or destroy the body's original structures. That is likely why viruses cause body aches, headaches and organ function disruptions.
Viruses can be extremely dangerous and often difficult to defeat. Likewise, antiviral meds must weaken or destroy the invading pathogen, not the host body. In a sense the science is still rather new.
Bacteria are less prone to mutation, by my understanding, and have been effectively dealt with via antibiotics. The problem there, after nearly a century of antibiotic therapies, is that those few bacteria that survive a dosing of a particular antibiotic then can prosper and will display an immunity to a dosing of the previous antibiotic. Thus the variety of antibiotics tends to broaden and multiply.
Dr's have been too prone to prescribe antibiotics, often due to pressure from their patients, which has led to patients sometimes being vulnerable to 'super infections' and extended hospital stays.