[C19fan]

I was talking to a co-worker originally from China. She mentioned this now notorious seafood market is right next to the maim train station of Wuhan.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I read another article which claimed that the initial attribution to snakes was incorrect; instead the source is bats.

We’ll see.

[OpusatFR]

Laboratory snakes...or bats?

[real saxophonist]

Don’t some Chinese believe that consuming certain parts of snakes or bats increases sexual energy?

[Tax-chick]

Nature. It wants to kill us.

[LibWhacker]

We need more diversity in the foods we eat.

Chinese Krait, anyone?

[Cold Heart]

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes.

Having said that, I remember carrying container loads of live snakes between Asian ports.

[HK_Kai_Chung]

No.
Chinese Coronavirus Outbreak Traced Back To Chinese culture and Communist Totalitarianism, Study Finds

[Cowboy Bob]

Beware the one-eyed trouser snake.

[MayflowerMadam]

“available for purchase, including snakes, bats, farm animals, poultry, and seafood.”

I have a VERY strong stomach and can handle almost anything. The only time I ever “lost it” over grossness was on a street in SFO’s Chinatown. The disgusting smells of I-don’t-know-what (food? animals?), and seeing dead critters hanging down from rafters and hooks, put me over the edge into fits of gagging. Luckily, there was a grate nearby.

What are these people THINKING?

[ridesthemiles]

Didn’t Saddam Hussein have a medical scientist he paid to produce biological weapons?

SHE was called “Dr Germ” in the media.

I am pretty sure she was testing her concoctions on Kurdish villages & whole villages were wiped out with NO survivors.