Canadian Filmmaker Shoots Coronavirus Thriller About Racism

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Since the film only appears to focus on how racism and fear manifest themselves in the elevator, there remain legitimate concerns likely outside the scope of the fictional thriller, such as how the Chinese authoritarian regime itself has handled the coronavirus outbreak — a concern that many people incorrectly assume is rooted in racism or xenophobia.

According to The Washington Times, the Communist government of China has allowed the country’s wet markets to reopen, places where cramped vendors sell live animals, including wildlife animals, for human consumption.

The Wall Street Journal has called on China to permanently ban wet markets, on account that they were also the source of the 2003 SARS outbreak.

Chinese scientists have identified a “wet market”—where live and dead animals, including many wildlife species, are sold for consumption—as the chief suspect for the origin of the Wuhan coronavirus. The virus is closely related to the virus that caused the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, which also was transmitted to humans from a wet market. China closed all markets that sell wildlife and temporarily banned the shipment and sale of wildlife throughout the country.

Beijing should make the ban permanent whether or not the Wuhan market turns out to be the source of the current outbreak, and other countries should follow its lead. There are similar markets in other cities across China and elsewhere in Asia. If these markets, and human consumption of wildlife, persist, the public will continue to face heightened risks of viral disease.

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