What's a "wet market"? I'm glad you asked....

[vraiblonde]

Here’s A List Of Some Of The Most Unusual Animals, Reptiles Available At A Typical Wuhan Wet Market

Venders at Wuhans wet markets sell everything from peacocks to kangaroos, and even an occasional camel or cat.

dailycaller.com

Now, I'm curious if this is a cultural thing or if this is all they have to eat.

 

[Bann]

I heard someone talking today on the news (I can't remember which show it was now, and who it was) these markets are common over there. They were the cause of the SARS virus back some years ago, also. There was a push to get China to stop allowing them back them.

Crazy.

 

[WingsOfGold]

Most likely cultural, bastards will eat most anything. Look at seafood at any grocery store, shrimp, crab, catfish or whatever... Product of China, I leave that shiit alone even if it is way cheaper.
Look at the shiit they sell at local oriental markets... dried fish in cellophane, I guess if you put the bastards in water they come back to life.

 

[Bird Dog]

Here’s A List Of Some Of The Most Unusual Animals, Reptiles Available At A Typical Wuhan Wet Market

Venders at Wuhans wet markets sell everything from peacocks to kangaroos, and even an occasional camel or cat.

dailycaller.com

Now, I'm curious if this is a cultural thing or if this is all they have to eat.

It’s cultural......been there, seen some crazy stuff. The interesting thing about these markets.....no refrigeration... you want seafood, poultry or pork you order it at a stall, go shop for veggies, come pack and pick it up, go home and cook dinner. Everything was alive that morning. Fish swim in tanks. Ducks, chickens and other fowl are in cages. Snakes and lizards are in glass aquariums, critters are in cages. You can order whole or just the parts you want. It’s actually pretty fascinating and it’s been going on forever.

 

[Gilligan]

It’s cultural......been there, seen some crazy stuff. The interesting thing about these markets.....no refrigeration... you want seafood, poultry or pork you order it at a stall, go shop for veggies, come pack and pick it up, go home and cook dinner. Everything was alive that morning. Fish swim in tanks. Ducks, chickens and other fowl are in cages. Snakes and lizards are in glass aquariums, critters are in cages. You can order whole or just the parts you want. It’s actually pretty fascinating and it’s been going on forever.

Exactly. I’ve had some very interesting dining experiences while working in China....

 

[GregV814]

Alright, the chineeee have been doing this for years, decades millennium... so their immune systems are well adapted. With conventional wisdom, (ahem) why has this delicacy poisoned the worlds population??

Hark!!! Maybe agent 86 dropped his viles in selected cities?????!!!!

 

[Hijinx]

I think I read somewhere that they experiment at Wuhan with animals in their labs, and some enterprising fellow who was supposed to cremate the experimented on animals decided to make a buck by selling them in the wet market.

 

[Yooper]

My experience has been from west to east (Europe -> Russia -> Central Asia). The further east one went the creepier the food offerings in the market.

I think it's part cultural, part what's available, and part what's obtainable/affordable. I think there are other things involved, but I'll just leave it there for now.

Regardless, the "orient" has some really strange (trying to keep it nice) proclivities in food, "medicine," and worldview.

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[vraiblonde]

Alright, the chineeee have been doing this for years, decades millennium... so their immune systems are well adapted. With conventional wisdom, (ahem) why has this delicacy poisoned the worlds population??

Thank you. If they've been doing it forever, why is it just now making not only them but everyone else in the world sick?

 

[RareBreed]

I think I read somewhere that they experiment at Wuhan with animals in their labs, and some enterprising fellow who was supposed to cremate the experimented on animals decided to make a buck by selling them in the wet market.

I heard that too.

 

[Gilligan]

Thank you. If they've been doing it forever, why is it just now making not only them but everyone else in the world sick?

Because most of those critters don't have any sort of pathogen that attacks us.

 

[Yooper]

Thank you. If they've been doing it forever, why is it just now making not only them but everyone else in the world sick?

Probably a rhetorical question. Regardless, gives me the opportunity to vent regarding the malpractice-at-a-global-level China commits by not shutting these sh!thole markets down.

Ease of transportation is clearly why the diseases are getting to the rest of the world more easily. Increased population density in China overall, but especially the increased density due to urbanization, is bringing the wet markets in closer and more frequent contact with people.

Wet markets, if they contain the magic trifecta of birds/bats, pigs, and humans, are the witches cauldron that keep spinning up these diseases. Benign viruses jump from the bats/birds into pigs and then into humans (where they are no longer benign).

Zoonotic diseases are very common, both in the United States and around the world. Scientists estimate that more than 6 out of every 10 known infectious diseases in people can be spread from animals, and 3 out of every 4 new or emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals. Because of this, CDC works 24/7 to protect people from zoonotic diseases in the United States and around the world.

From:

Zoonotic Diseases | One Health | CDC

www.cdc.gov

Same dynamic in Africa, but more or less substitute "monkeys" for "pigs" as the intermediate agent/vessel. Population density is less in Africa (as is ease of transportation out of Africa), so outbreaks tend not to take off like they do out of China.

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[Bann]

I think I read somewhere that they experiment at Wuhan with animals in their labs, and some enterprising fellow who was supposed to cremate the experimented on animals decided to make a buck by selling them in the wet market.

Me, too. I've heard it on the news here or there, a couple of times.

 

[22AcaciaAve]

Hark!!! Maybe agent 86 dropped his viles in selected cities?????!!!!

Would you believe........selected countries?

 

[GregV814]

Would you believe........selected countries?

Would you believe Little RED riding hood dropping her porridge?...

 

[Louise]

I didn’t know where to post this...so here. My neighbor across the street was mowing his yard today on a riding lawn mower in full hazmat attire. It was like,..am I really seeing this? Yikes!

 

[WingsOfGold]

I didn’t know where to post this...so here. My neighbor across the street was mowing his yard today on a riding lawn mower in full hazmat attire. It was like,..am I really seeing this? Yikes!

Outside.......... I'd say that is overkill.

 

[Louise]

Outside.......... I'd say that is overkill.

Interesting choice of words. And, our next door neighbor (widowed and living alone) was freaking out to us today because she has a compromised lung. I felt so bad for her. Husband fixed a piece of siding for her today that had come loose. We will survive. I am not a scaredy cat, but I feel so bad for people that are freaking out. I know we all have to be careful all the time, but this coronacrap is over the top.

 

[WingsOfGold]

Interesting choice of words. And, our next door neighbor (widowed and living alone) was freaking out to us today because she has a compromised lung. I felt so bad for her. Husband fixed a piece of siding for her today that had come loose. We will survive. I am not a scaredy cat, but I feel so bad for people that are freaking out. I know we all have to be careful all the time, but this coronacrap is over the top.

Freak out no, due diligence is a smart move.

 

[Hijinx]

Outside.......... I'd say that is overkill.

When cutting grass I wear glasses and a face mask one to keep the grass from blowing in my eyes , the other for allergies, but I don't wear the protective garments.