What sparked the Covid pandemic? Mounting evidence points to raccoon dogs

So the article references the market samples with Raccoon Dog mtDNA with some SARS2 within it. But here is the problem when you look at the samples there is a high abundance of animal viruses such as bamboo rat CoV, canine CoV HeB-G1, rabbit CoV HKU14, and canine CoV SD-F3. But a very low abundance of SARS2 so much so that SARS2 is negatively associated with non human mtDNA.

> Mitochondrial material from most susceptible non-human species sold live at the market is negatively correlated with the presence of SARS-CoV-2: for instance, thirteen of the fourteen samples with at least a fifth of their chordate mitochondrial material from raccoon dogs contain no SARS-CoV-2 reads, and the other sample contains just 1 of ~200,000,000 reads mapping to SARS-CoV-2

https://academic.oup.com/ve/article/9/2/vead050/7249794?logi...

Study on what viruses such as canine CoVs where highly correlated with animals like Raccoon Dog:

https://academic.oup.com/ve/article/10/1/vead089/7504441?log...

disagree.

I saw a couple of manky looking mongrels looking dodgy at my local park.

you know what I mean, casually sniffing each others arses then looking around to make sure no one saw them. Very dodgy.

I did think at the time "They must be the culprits of spreading the flu" just simply because they looked dodgy.