21st Century Pandemic Timeline

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

I've been thinking about how the COVID 01 SARS virus outbreak was first identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, on 16 November 2002 and then around April of 2003 the SARS coronavirus was identified as the virus infecting humans in 2002, and finally in 2005 bat lady Shi Zhengli found that bats are the natural reservoir of SARS-like coronaviruses.

How did it take three years from 2002 for bat lady and friends to determine bats carried the corona virus when they supposedly knew that the year following the first outbreak? "Researchers" said it took them five years to identify the corona virus in bats. Is someone lying?

With the given information, that would give bat lady at best 4 months to find this particular cave, collect bats and their shit, find the virus, submit the virus samples to the main lab that then tested these samples to determine early in 2003 that corona is responsible for the SARS outbreak. She had to know the location of this cave and that bats from this cave had likely spread it to humans. They may even of had some cases from there as much as five years previously that were never reported after the later outbreak in Foshan.

On top of all this, in 2019, bat lady Shi Zhengli reported that one of the strains found in "that cave" (the location of which is a guarded secret) is almost identical to the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. This of course is in conflict with the 2012 discovery of "a SARS-like coronavirus" that was the supposed origin of COVID 19.

Huh?    What?

Or it could be inaccurate sources screwing up the time line.

I might be able to resolve this timeline issue with the following theory. Bat lady and "researchers" were working with wild bat populations, some located in a cave in or near Foshan, for at least five years prior to the 2002 SARS outbreak. Just around the 2002 outbreak, they would have known the basic types of diseases and virus that are carried by horseshoe bats. That however contradicts the 2005 bat lady report that stated that horseshoe bats are the natural source of SARS corona virus.

Assuming that last point is in error, it is possible they had a collection of ready samples to compare with what was found in the first SARS patients. That would make it possible for the labs to get their samples to play with early in 2003.

So I need to find out what lab (or labs) made this five year bat study, when it was or at least when the bat studies in China first began. Then I must verify or dismiss the 2005 report making the connection with the virus and the bats. Once I get the original source information it should resolve the timeline issue, if not it may pose other questions that lead in other directions.