Sciencefag anons chime in if you can further my thoughts.
A few things have been stuck in my craw.
1 POTUS said the virus fomented
2 POTUS keeps saying it came to our shores
3 DHS scientist lays out life/death environments for the virus which are the exact opposite for mold (fungi). Suggesting to me that the 2 could not share the same space at the same time with the exception of a brief 18 hour period.
I have a hypothetical situation that is based on a mold/fungi I have personal experience with. I am going to use the mold that decays lumber (softwoods) as my base.
This mold goes through stages and the final stage is for survival purposes. It will flower into a mushroom where it holds millions of spores. It will last a short time and droplets of spores will build up. The droplets fall and it releases the spores They can travel as far as 6 feet and begin to entrench in lumber close by.
My Q: What would happen if this virus was dropped into the center of the mushroom shortly before it was ready to release the spores? Within that 18 hour window of being able to jointly be alive ? The fungi continues on but with virus inside the spores.
would the virus overtake the fungi causing it to speed up it's life cycle process?
Would the millions of spores contain replicated virus?
I started seeking info to answer some of these questions and stumbled across a Chinese dirty trick that is killing our mushroom grower businesses.
The Hypothetical I set out with questions makes this sneaky practice by the Chinese much more interesting as a possibility of how the virus spread around the World and why some areas hit hard and others not so much.
BELOW IS COPY/PASTE from an article of the sneaky process. These frozen logs and other such shipping could very well be how China spread this
In 2018, many Oakshire customers — retailers and other U.S. mushroom growers who didn’t grow shiitake themselves — stopped buying from him because the influx of much cheaper Chinese shiitake substrate logs meant they could save money by harvesting those shiitakes themselves, he said.
“There are so many layers of this that are just wrong, it’s astonishing,” Schroeder said. “Here we have a product made in China, inoculated in China, predominately grown in China and mislabeled.
“And everybody is happily buying it because of the reduced cost and it’s legal, and I think that’s a problem in our industry,” he said.
“It’s all about price. That’s our world.”
Oakshire packs oak sawdust and other ingredients into a polypropylene bag, sterilizes it and inoculates it with spawn, placing it into an environmentally controlled room. They produce shiitakes in seven weeks. The total process, from spawning to harvesting, takes about four months.
https://www.thepacker.com/article/us-shiitake-mushroom-growers-question-chinese-imports
Frozen Chinese logs arriving U.S. need only eight to 10 days before mushrooms can be harvested, Shroeder said.