[Info-vax] testing the water

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <r5b7uu$978$1 at dont-email.me>, Alfred Falk <aefalk at telus.net>
writes: 

> There _is_ the high population density.  

Yes, but there are other places with a similar population density.

> There is also the long-standing 
> practice of live-animal (food) markets, including wild-animal markets.  

Exist in lots of places.

> Last 
> I heard this was the most likely source of the COVid19 virus, having jumped 
> from bats  or panglolins.  

It's not unusual for viruses to mutate and attack new species.

> Who knows?  I have heard that these markets are 
> officially illegal, but old practices die hard anywhere, and the laws 
> haven't been enforced.

It is hard to maintain good hygiene when there are too many people, but 
I don't think that there is anything peculiar to China about this.

> You are shocked to hear they eat bats and pangolins in China?  

No.

> A friend from  
> Beijing says he'd never heard of it before either.  

China is big.

> Also, keep in mind that 
> everybody in the world eats _something_ that somebody elsewhere will find 
> disgusting.

True.