And, frankly, even if some bat-eating was contributory, I don’t buy all that wise-after-the-event admonition. The whole ‘Well, if you’re going to eat bats, what do you expect?’ attitude. ‘Not this!’ is the answer to that. ‘I expected a delicious bat meal, not a global pandemic. I maybe had half an eye on food poisoning – perhaps that would have served me right. This is fucking insane.’ Now I’m talking as if I was the guy who ate the bat. Which I’m not. I am relatively confident I have never eaten bat, though I’ve had a fair few frozen lasagnes so it’s hard to be totally sure.
