Flavinkins (@Flavinkins)

Someone tried to look for Coronaviruses in patients with cold-like symptoms (mild cold to pneumonia, same symptoms sets for HCoVs) in Malaysia and Thailand. Everywhere including Thailand, Malaysia, Haiti, they found only the occasional CCoV (dog coronavirus), traces of Porcine CoV (pig coronavirus), and in case of Afarica, MERS-CoV which is epizootic and common in camels. None of these were ever found to spread beyond the few occasional patients they were found in. There were NO recorded epidemics caused by Coronaviruses originating in Malaysia (or Southeast Asia). There were NO recognized pandemics originating in Southeast Asia including Malaysia in the past 100 years. All the occasional CoVs they found originated from livestock and not wild animals—even those found near markets selling wild animals.