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Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts

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Re: Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts

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It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance. E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh

"Wet markets" are just farmers' markets.

Re: Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts

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It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance. E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh

Yeah why don’t these people just stay home and starve. Sigh

Re: Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts

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It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance. E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh

"Wet markets" are just farmers' markets.

Eh, there aren’t live animals available for slaughter on the spot at any of the hundreds of farmer’s market I’ve been to in the US Midwest.

Re: Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts

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It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance. E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh

"Wet markets" are just farmers' markets.

... that sell wild caught animals, and usually don’t have a domesticated counterpart.

Re: Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts

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It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance. E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh

It's a misconception that all wet markets transmit disease; they are basically markets that sell fresh foods like vegetables. A portion, probably a minority, sell "exotic" animal meat, and even then "exotic" is a biased perspective.

Re: Scientists fear pandemic's 'hyper hygiene' could have long-term health impacts

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It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance. E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh

"Wet markets" are just farmers' markets.

> "Wet markets" are just farmers' markets

Well...I guess their definition of farm animals is considerably broader than ours...:-)

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