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Claims are circulating online that a newly printed American quarter with a picture of two Samoan fruit bats on it somehow connected to a government plot or government pre-knowledge of the coronavirus.
The quarter was put into circulation in February to honor the National Park of American Samoa, a U.S. territory in the Pacific. It features a mother fruit bat and her pup hanging upside down.
The connection between the U.S. quarter and the coronavirus comes from the theory that COVID-19, which emerged from China, originated in bats and made the jump from bats to humans through an intermediate species. Researchers, however, are still unsure of how the virus was transmitted to humans. Comments on social media indicate that some think the coincidence of the novel coronavirus' potential connection to bats and the design of the quarter might be more than that. The Trust Index team did some research and found the quarter was first minted Feb. 13, 2020, but its design was debuted in August of 2019, four months before the first case of the novel coronavirus was reported in Wuhan, China.
originally posted by: myselfaswell
a reply to: KKLOCO
WTF is this, has this been discussed?
Yep, ad nauseam.
originally posted by: smurfy
They say the story is not true...should you scroll down a bit.
Anyway it was horseshoe bats that were the centre of attention, and they were used for experiments in Wuhan in 2015/16 by an international grouping of scientists....not just China.
The quarter was put into circulation in February to honor the National Park of American Samoa, a U.S. territory in the Pacific. It features a mother fruit bat and her pup hanging upside down.
originally posted by: KKLOCO
originally posted by: smurfy
They say the story is not true...should you scroll down a bit.
Anyway it was horseshoe bats that were the centre of attention, and they were used for experiments in Wuhan in 2015/16 by an international grouping of scientists....not just China.
Mmmhhhmmm,
BATS
don’t buy it.
But my apologies, I should have searched.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
originally posted by: KKLOCO
a reply to: KansasGirl
Love it!
I started going through my penny jars.
Turns out, I’ve got 3 already. They have a different glimmer to them. Kind of a mild copper reflection.
originally posted by: KansasGirl
originally posted by: KKLOCO
a reply to: KansasGirl
Love it!
I started going through my penny jars.
Turns out, I’ve got 3 already. They have a different glimmer to them. Kind of a mild copper reflection.
Whattttt? Cool! Post pics?
originally posted by: LordAhriman
I just want one. Because I love bats.