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Wuhan Wet Market Accountability

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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 22:23

I know this is a stupid question, which is why I can't ask anyone irl!

Why hasn't the wet market in Wuhan been held accountable for this pandemic? Why is it allowed to operate as it always has?

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Freddiefox · 26/12/2020 22:51

My point is that unless we start treating animal welfare seriously then we can expect more zoonotic virus’s. It’s only a matter of time. We should all be held accountable. We can’t just look to China, we need to look at all of us.

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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 22:52

I agree, FreddieFox.

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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 22:53

My colleague posted some information on Twitter and the current be rise of bird flu in the UK. She said that this is also very dangerous to humans. She's a biology teacher, so isn't just thinking these things out of nowhere.

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WinnieTheW0rm · 26/12/2020 22:57

We don't know what or where the animal reservoir is.

Nor do we know if the wet market was the origin or an early spreading event.

TooTrueToBeGood · 26/12/2020 22:59

She's a biology teacher

That makes her only marginally more qualified than the janitor to express opinions on pandemics.

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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 22:59

Thank you for the Institute of Virology link. It says that that research shows that horseshoe bats are 'reservoirs' of SARS. I wonder why they are allowed to sell them alive then.

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 26/12/2020 22:59

‘How is eating a bat that different from celebs eating sheep’s testicle? and that’s entertainment.‘

There is an important difference there and that is how risky they are in terms of zoonotic diseases. Bats carry more diseases than most other animals and thus should be avoided. However as we do equally risky things like keeping animals crammed into high densities we don’t have a leg to stand on.
I would like to see live animal markets banned but it should be as part of a programme which reviews high risk practices across all cultures not just the Chinese.

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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 23:00

It does make her qualified, yes.

I am like a janitor, so I listen to people like her!

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TooTrueToBeGood · 26/12/2020 23:05

@AverageContents

It does make her qualified, yes.

I am like a janitor, so I listen to people like her!

What level does she teach at?
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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 23:06

She is a secondary school teacher. She teaches GCSEs and A levels if that's what you mean.

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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 23:09

Just looked at her profile and she has a MSc from a tropical medicine college in London.

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Lorianmando · 26/12/2020 23:09

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dementedpixie · 26/12/2020 23:12

It didn't go straight from bats to humans, there is likely to be an intermediary animal that has yet to be identified.

dementedpixie · 26/12/2020 23:13

As in it wasn't passed on by people earing bats

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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 23:16

How do we know that it wasn't passed on by people eating bats?

Do most people now believe that it came from the Virology Institute?

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JacobReesMogadishu · 26/12/2020 23:17

Seeing as they’ve now proven it was in Italy, France and American in Oct/November last year I think it would be hard to pin it on Whuhan.

Nikhedonia · 26/12/2020 23:19

How do we know that it wasn't passed on by people eating bats?

If the fictional person who ate the bat is alive, I'd imagine they feel really, really awkward right now.

2magpies1pigeon · 26/12/2020 23:24

The word on the street in China was that some American soldiers were sent to Wuhan in order to plant the virus.

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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 23:27

Why would US soldiers do that?

"the word on the street in China". Is that a joke?

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AwaAnBileYerHeid · 26/12/2020 23:27

@TooTrueToBeGood

She's a biology teacher

That makes her only marginally more qualified than the janitor to express opinions on pandemics.

Not quite true, but ok.
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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 23:30

Her profile says she has an MSc degree from a tropical diseases and hygiene college, in London.

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Onedropbeat · 26/12/2020 23:31

@2magpies1pigeon

The word on the street in China was that some American soldiers were sent to Wuhan in order to plant the virus.
They did hold the military games in Wuhan last October so maybe not far off

It was a massive event that would have meant it would have spread worldwide way before December which makes sense for the findings people have now

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AverageContents · 26/12/2020 23:31

She does know what she's talking about and often puts things on twitter and bird flu called something like N15

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Nikhedonia · 26/12/2020 23:31

@2magpies1pigeon

The word on the street in China was that some American soldiers were sent to Wuhan in order to plant the virus.
The word on the street in China GrinGrin incredible. In a country with a population of nearly 1.4bn people. I've actually heard it all now.
LilQueenie · 26/12/2020 23:31

There has been strains of the virus found in spain from as far back as March 2019. It did not originate in Nov/Dec from China let alone the wet market placed there. The current new strains have developed from the virus mutating in different areas of the world at the same time. That's the nature of a virus.