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The vast majority of Chinese do not eat bats or other wild game either. I don’t know a single Chinese person that has eaten bat before, and I’ve been going to
by throw445323 7y ago
The vast majority of Chinese do not eat bats or other wild game either.
I don’t know a single Chinese person that has eaten bat before, and I’ve been going to the country every year for 20 years now.
It’s only because China has such a large population that even 1% is 10 million people.
If anyone is sick, I ALWAYS see them using a separate set of chopsticks to get food, and they usually will put it in a separate plate.
You eat with family and friends and a sick person would take extra precautions to not infect them.
- nikofeyn 7y agomy original comment was on the likelihood of this originating in a market versus a lab-based outbreak. of course most chinese do not eat bat. i didn't imply they did. the comment you replied to was me dismissing the commenter's argument. but the wuhan market and its patrons do eat bats and other animals that could already be infected by bats. so it's not far fetched that the virus did indeed originate there vs a lab leak. the latter part of my comment was regarding the potential spread of disease. your comment addresses someone who already knows they are sick. the onset period of this virus is one to two weeks. that's a minimum of 14-21 meals before any symptoms show up, leaving plenty of time for person to person transmission. that plus the density of china's major cities and this particular time of year regarding travel yields a rather fertile ground for disease spread.