While I frown on the practices at those wet markets, they’ve
been around for a long long time, and haven’t been a problem
before.“
Not true. Epidemiologists have been tracing diseases to them for 70 years. There are scientific papers all over the internet that date from the 50s 60s 70s. Also, read the full article I posted.
Interesting how so many Freepers want to defend these disgusting Chinese wet markets
One of many studies long predating COVID-19
Infectious Diseases Emerging From Chinese Wet-Markets: Zoonotic Origins of Severe Respiratory Viral Infections
Patrick Cy Woo et al. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2006 Oct.
Abstract
Purpose of review: In China, close contacts between humans and food animals have resulted in the transmission of many microbes from animals to humans. The two most notable infectious diseases in recent years are severe acute respiratory syndrome and avian influenza. In this review, these two severe zoonotic viral infections transmitted by the respiratory route, with pandemic potential, are used as models to illustrate the role of Chinese wet-markets in their emergence, amplification and dissemination.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16940861/
I hate to break it to you, but those studies didn’t prevail
in revealing anything worth closing the wet markets over,
or they wouldn’t still be around.
We have some of those same clowns saying this started in the wet
markets. That ignores what we have found out about the
lab, which was being funded in part by Fauci’s organization.
I don’t defend them. I’m simply stating a fact that there
has not been anything found worthy of closing those markets.
People frequent them. Do you think they have a death wish?
Do you think they go there hoping to get ill?
You wouldn’t catch me eating in one of them, or eating a number
of things Asians eat.