I wonder if this will be the final nail in the coffin for wet markets and in particular game markets, given this history.
I mean not just in official proclamation but resulting in the complete disappearance even in rural backwaters.
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#13Yes
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
They could start by shutting down all of the wet markets.
They've done that.
They haven't done it permanently yet though
Edit: For the downvoters, here's evidence of a TEMPORARY ban
https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-chinese-we...
Please refute me with evidence of a permanent ban. Otherwise, you're being counter productive
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#15Should 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?
Yes, if it turns out a poor country lied and imprisoned doctors attempting to disseminate facts, then yes, they ought to be punished internationally..
We shouldn't punish China for simply having the virus. That could happen to anyone. But lying about it on the world stage for months, imprisoning whistleblower doctors, etc is reprehensible behavior.
Re: Is China Ground Zero for a Future Pandemic? (2017)
#16Should 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.
The lack of sanitary standards in everyday life has always been shocking to me whenever I've visited China to be honest. People often spit on the streets and cough and sneeze without covering their faces, even in the big modern cities.
Someone even vomited on my shoe in a subway station once and then just walked away without even acknowledging that they did it. I'm really not surprised that these diseases show a tendency to start in China.
In Hong Kong and Taiwan it's rather different - hand sanitizer is readily available and people actually wash their hands after using the restroom, etc.
Even in surrounding (and much poorer) South East Asian nations people seem to be much better at maintaining a better level of general hygiene.
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#17I wonder if this will be the final nail in the coffin for wet markets and in particular game markets, given this history. I mean not just in official proclamation but resulting in the complete disappearance even in rural backwaters.
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#18China's official stance is that virus was developed by CIA and brought to Wuhan by US military [1]. So they'll have to reopen wet markets or else be seen as admitting that the virus actually originated in one of them in China rather than in a CIA lab.
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#20China's official stance is that virus was developed by CIA and brought to Wuhan by US military [1]. So they'll have to reopen wet markets or else be seen as admitting that the virus actually originated in one of them in China rather than in a CIA lab. [1] https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1238111898828066823
Please don't spread conspiracy theories without linking to a reliable source.