[Info-vax] testing the water

[Alfred Falk]

helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) wrote in 
news:r5b5b6$oin$1 at gioia.aioe.org:

> In article <r5aj9a$pf3$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
><davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 
> 
>> We need to be looking at avoiding these things.  What is wrong in China 
>> that such things keep coming along?  Perhaps some fundamental changes 
>> need to occur. 
> 
> Anything concrete?  I would never live in China; I will very probably 
> never even visit it; it's not my kind of place.  But I don't think that 
> the virus came into existence because of Mao's hairdo.  Or do you have a 
> better theory?
> 
> China has a huge population; a random virus is more likely to come from 
> there than from Liechtenstein.

There _is_ the high population density.  There is also the long-standing 
practice of live-animal (food) markets, including wild-animal markets.  Last 
I heard this was the most likely source of the COVid19 virus, having jumped 
from bats  or panglolins.  Who knows?  I have heard that these markets are 
officially illegal, but old practices die hard anywhere, and the laws 
haven't been enforced.
You are shocked to hear they eat bats and pangolins in China?  A friend from  
Beijing says he'd never heard of it before either.  Also, keep in mind that 
everybody in the world eats _something_ that somebody elsewhere will find 
disgusting.