[thisrod]

I'm a bit disappointed that people with little connection to Asia are still making a big fuss about wet markets and exotic animals.

In March 2020, it was natural for people to leap to conclusions, because the only thing anyone knew about the coronavirus was that it "came from" a Wuhan market with weird animals.

Weird is socially relative. You eat pigs and pat dogs. Billions of people think that's weird and a bit gross. Fair enough, seeing how many diseases people have caught from them. Animals can carry germs that are dangerous to people. Wash your hands after you touch them.

Objectively, a wet market is just a slaughterhouse. Here's what, in 2022, you should deduce from the fact that the first large coronavirus outbreak occurred in a slaughterhouse: coronavirus outbreaks occur in slaughterhouses. Obviously some animal carried the virus to the Wuhan market. It's very likely that animal was human, because of all the species there, only humans are known to catch the virus. Even if you found an infected pangolin, you'd have to suspect it caught the virus from its handlers.

[civilized]

You say that

1. Pigs and dogs frequently transmit diseases to humans.

2. SARS-CoV-2 was "very likely" carried to the Wuhan market by humans, since only humans are "known" to catch the virus among species present at the market.

I don't understand why you are so confident in #2 given #1? If animals frequently transmit diseases to humans, why would we assume this did not happen in the Wuhan market case? Have all species present at the market been exhaustively tested and proven not to contract or transmit the virus? That would be news to me. All I know is it's been reported that many species traded at the market are known to harbor coronaviruses.

And what exactly is your theory of the origin? Surely the virus came from somewhere, and didn't just suddenly appear in humans without a source?

[ngc248]

>>> I'm a bit disappointed that people with little connection to Asia are still making a big fuss about wet markets and exotic animals.

Well people with little connection to Asia got corona, heck almost everyone across the world got corona and Asia, particularly wuhan's wet market has the first documented cases. So someone not connected to Asia making a big fuss is ok