Now the CCP fucked up big time in 2016 when they amended their endangered species act which allowed endangered animals (i. e. pangolins) to be kept in wet markets. Holding all of these animals in close proximity allowed for genetic recombination to occur that would never occur in a natural setting (to everyone who says that such a virus couldn't have arose in a 'natural setting', no shit) leading to the current coronavirus pandemic. Eager to defend the lab leak hypothesis, some on the reactionary right have called the wet market origin as a "racist conspiracy theory that it came about because Asians eat bats and pangolins". Apart from being blatant projection, it can hardly be called racist because it doesn't incriminate Chinese people as a whole because only a tiny fraction of them buy from wet markets. But it only took a few people to do stupid shit to screw it up for everyone.
This is why we can't just leave things up to the market and let consumer choice weed out bad practices. You need regulations to prevent these things and as for the CCP, I'm not just talking shit with the benefit of hindsight, having all these animals in close proximity is how the 2003 SARS outbreak happened. Now if something like this happens again, no one on earth could absolve their responsibility of a policy that lead to the emergence of a new infectious disease by saying it's "hindsight bias". So what are some practices that you fear will lead to the emergence of new infectious diseases? One I can think of is quit overusing antibiotics in animal agriculture.
This is why we can't just leave things up to the market and let consumer choice weed out bad practices. You need regulations to prevent these things and as for the CCP, I'm not just talking shit with the benefit of hindsight, having all these animals in close proximity is how the 2003 SARS outbreak happened. Now if something like this happens again, no one on earth could absolve their responsibility of a policy that lead to the emergence of a new infectious disease by saying it's "hindsight bias". So what are some practices that you fear will lead to the emergence of new infectious diseases? One I can think of is quit overusing antibiotics in animal agriculture.
