These western romanticized talks of China like its some cute little network of farm villages while simultaneously calling people out for their "first-world take

These western romanticized talks of China like its some cute little network of farm villages while simultaneously calling people out for their "first-world takes" is really only showing your own ignorance. Wuhan isn't some backwater poor city, it's one of the bigger hubs for transit in China and fully developed. It has the money to regulate and maintain hygienic markets. I hate Shapiro but his "bigotry of low expectations" thing of not holding nations up to the same moral standards because you don't see them as on your country's level is bang on the mark here. The Chinese government can and should do better to subsidize here.