Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
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Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
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#3Should China pay some sort of reparations? Maybe in the form of contributing to a WHO preparedness fund/initiative with stocking supplies that could be deployed faster next time? China needs to pay for their 1) lack of sanitary standards surrounding their markets and 2) their coverup which exacerbated the situation.
Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
#4Should China pay some sort of reparations? Maybe in the form of contributing to a WHO preparedness fund/initiative with stocking supplies that could be deployed faster next time? China needs to pay for their 1) lack of sanitary standards surrounding their markets and 2) their coverup which exacerbated the situation.
They could start by shutting down all of the wet markets.
Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
#5Should China pay some sort of reparations? Maybe in the form of contributing to a WHO preparedness fund/initiative with stocking supplies that could be deployed faster next time? China needs to pay for their 1) lack of sanitary standards surrounding their markets and 2) their coverup which exacerbated the situation.
This
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#6what makes these wet markets different to similar cases in Africa where "bush meat" is consumed? Is it just an equal risk in China as it is in Africa or is there something unique about China (e.g. climate, lack of oversight, central planning)? Or is it just the news cycle and that we choose focus on China right now since the recent bird flu and SARS being fresh in memory?
whoever wrote this must have felt like a modern Cassandra.
Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
#7Should China pay some sort of reparations? Maybe in the form of contributing to a WHO preparedness fund/initiative with stocking supplies that could be deployed faster next time? China needs to pay for their 1) lack of sanitary standards surrounding their markets and 2) their coverup which exacerbated the situation.
They could start by shutting down all of the wet markets.
They've done that.
Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
#8what makes these wet markets different to similar cases in Africa where "bush meat" is consumed? Is it just an equal risk in China as it is in Africa or is there something unique about China (e.g. climate, lack of oversight, central planning)? Or is it just the news cycle and that we choose focus on China right now since the recent bird flu and SARS being fresh in memory? whoever wrote this must have felt like a mode…
From my understanding China’s population density (it’s very urbanized at this point) and interconnection with global travel make it more dangerous.
Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
#9what makes these wet markets different to similar cases in Africa where "bush meat" is consumed? Is it just an equal risk in China as it is in Africa or is there something unique about China (e.g. climate, lack of oversight, central planning)? Or is it just the news cycle and that we choose focus on China right now since the recent bird flu and SARS being fresh in memory? whoever wrote this must have felt like a mode…
China is much more internationally connected and densely populated than Africa is. Pretty much why the rate of international infection skyrocketed after the disease got to Italy.
Africa also it's share of problems and diseases.See Ebola.
Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
#10Should China pay some sort of reparations? Maybe in the form of contributing to a WHO preparedness fund/initiative with stocking supplies that could be deployed faster next time? China needs to pay for their 1) lack of sanitary standards surrounding their markets and 2) their coverup which exacerbated the situation.
So do we do this next time any new illness spread? what if it happened to a poor country? Is this going to be coded as an international law? If so why is the law retrospective? Considering your 1) lack of sanitary standards is more prevalent in poorer countries is the law discriminatory?