“Italians don't eat coypu”
oh yeah - well - they do in Lombardy
District ring a bell for you???!!!!!
ding ding? The very place of one of the earliest breakouts
“the solution is obvious: ‘let’s start eating them in restaurants and at food festivals,’ he wrote.
Having already tasted the meat, Marchi then went on to say that there are already regions of Italy where locals are trying out coypu as a foodstuff.”
“The coypu is a very clean animal and is a herbivore. I have tasted it several times, both cooked in a stew with onions and baked. I can confirm it’s better than rabbit,’ one user wrote”
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/i...rodents-roaming-italy-serve-as-a-feast/?amp=1
How coincidental eh - exactly the right species capable of carrying the virus in Lombardy being eaten by locals
and guess what???
“The epidemic in Italy started much earlier than February 20, 2020. At the time of detection of the first COVID-19 case, the epidemic had already spread in most municipalities of Southern-Lombardy. The median age for of cases is 69 years (range, 1 month to 101 years). 47% of positive subjects were hospitalized. Among these, 18% required intensive care. The mean serial interval is estimated to be 6.6 days (95% CI, 0.7 to 19). We estimate the basic reproduction number at 3.1 (95% CI, 2.9 to 3.2). We estimated a decreasing trend in the net reproduction number starting around February 20, 2020. We did not observe significantly different viral loads in nasal swabs between symptomatic and asymptomatic. The transmission potential of COVID-19 is very high and the number of critical cases may become largely unsustainable for the healthcare system in a very short-time horizon. We observed a slight decrease of the reproduction number, possibly connected with an increased population awareness and early effect of interventions. Aggressive containment strategies are required to control COVID-19 spread and catastrophic outcomes for the healthcare system.”
https://www.researchgate.net/public...se_of_the_COVID-19_outbreak_in_Lombardy_Italy
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.09320
