So it’s been two years and the majority of the US still pushes Wuhan as the origin of the pandemic.
What is the counter-narrative/truth to this position ? Any evidence come up in the last couple of years? Thank you.
So it’s been two years and the majority of the US still pushes Wuhan as the origin of the pandemic.
What is the counter-narrative/truth to this position ? Any evidence come up in the last couple of years? Thank you.
While it would be good to have better regulation and supervision of wet markets, singling them out is myopic. Industrial cultivation of animals is a much more potent breeding ground for pathogens. A ton of animals living tightly packed is a great for pathogens since there is no shortage of hosts for them to jump to. In face disease outbreaks in factory farms are not uncommon, and entire batches of animals have to slaughtered when it happens.
I’m not sure how important wet markets were for COVID and in what way. A lot of different people say a lot of different things and it’s easy to find sources that support whatever viewpoint you prefer. But focusing on wet markets diverts attention from two important points. First is the factory farming that I mentioned above. Second os that after the outbreak of covid, the wealthiest countries in the world adopted policies that essentially let their workforce die of covid while installing a vaccine apartheid and prevent poorer countries from accessing vaccines.
It’s also racist because people decide what food is considered normal based on western preferences and if you eat something else you are a disgusting freak.
It’s not illegal to medicate against the pathogens in industrialised animal rearing because in those places it is easier to contain the spread due to the implication of an industry, that has it’s own enforcement mechanisms, and often times, is based on the scaling up of scientific practices itself, but with wet markets that have to be cracked down upon, the issue is there are many people eating from what has been scientifically discovered to be likely to give you a contagious disease. Something that I also find has it’s own literature in international law, and for good reason.
If it’s risky enough to demand border controls since ages (see history of epidemics), the inherent problem doesn’t become the industrialisation of race-specific preferences (if you may argue that wet markets are an industry), but the common good of humanity.
So what are suggesting? Shutting down of wet markets entirely or regulating them?
Regulation, comrade.
actually, I remember just after covid started to spread reading an article about industrial agriculture (especially have animals penned in on top of each other in horrible conditions) and how that leads to the spread of diseases like covid.