Posted on 02/15/2020 3:57:57 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Last week, rumors began circulating that endangered pangolins — also known as scaly anteaters — might have been the intermediate host that allowed the deadly new coronavirus disease COVID-19 to spread from bats to humans, based on unpublished research findings announced in a Chinese university press release. Although evidence was not provided, I witnessed a flood of social media posts celebrating the “revenge” of pangolins because Chinese traditional remedies can include pangolin body parts. As much as I love pangolins and don’t want to see them driven to extinction by the illegal wildlife trade, I am concerned to see environmentalism and conservationism building on racist narratives. It’s a culturally sensitive problem that extends further than this current coronavirus crisis, and it needs to stop.
None of this context excuses or condones China’s wildlife exploitation. But hopefully it puts the controversy in perspective. It’s easy to blame other people for damaging biodiversity when they’re doing things you don’t understand or accept. It’s much harder to take responsibility for the damage each one of us causes every day through the foods we choose to eat, the ways that we travel, and the level of creature comforts we each believe we deserve.
Environmentalism and conservationism are noble and vital pursuits. But dialogues about coronavirus should not allow the topic of wildlife conservation to provide a smokescreen for prejudice. It’s OK to become angry that pangolins are going extinct; we should use this energy constructively to learn more about the issue and possibly support conservation efforts. With global teamwork we can prevail against both the emerging coronavirus pandemic and the illegal wildlife trade.
Throwing stones from glass houses will only make achieving this goal that much more difficult.
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>> It’s much harder to take responsibility for the damage each one of us causes every day through the foods we choose to eat, the ways that we travel, and the level of creature comforts we each believe we deserve.
this from the crowd that promotes abortion even after a child is born and wants to harvest parts from aborted babies.
A society has room for First World Problems when they have an economy humming along, with peace and prosperity.
Those days are about to end for the West, due to Coronavirus cutting off supplies from China.
The intermediate host was more likely a test tube in its natural environment in a lab.
Basically another scummy white prog trying to attains some social status on our backs while making minimal efforts at preserving the natural world.
All three, MERS and SARS and the WuHan virus started in from Hu Pei/Wu Han. China’s primary or only bioweapons lab is definitely in Wu Han. China’s top bioweapons expert has been sent in the last couple of days to take over the effort to contain. It makes me wonder just what part of China the previous Chinese derived bird and pig flus came from.
Honestly, at this point I don’t give a sh!t where it started. Shame on Xi for not allowing the world to come in and try to fix it.
Xi Jin Ping is a Chinese Emperor and is acting like a Chinese Emperor. His and the Communists’ concern there is with the Mandate of Heaven though they do not speak that phrase. It is the overriding concept for the last three+ millennia. The Communist Dynasty fears it is being lifted and are reacting as Emperors and Dynasties have reacted to emergencies in the past.
Since all have been sequenced, it seems likely that eventually it will be known if these were genetically manipulated viruses. Of course, we also know that poor diet (including eating anything!!!) is a huge factor, along with very poor living conditions and poor health care. My prayer is that God will use this crisis to somehow free China and North Korea from oppression. Let Christ shine in!!
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