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Past black swan events are not necessarily good indicators for future black swan events. This time it was (probably) bats and pangolins--next time it could be c

• JumpCrisscross 7y ago
  > Past black swan events are not necessarily good indicators for future black swan events SARS also originated from Chinese wet markets [1]. If you're trying to engineer a plague, crowding different species with one another's effluence is the traditional way to do it. > there is certainly some risk in industrial farming too Some. But not comparable to wet markets. The latter's only comparison is with medieval European cities, where people, sewage and livestock had constant and close proximity to one another. The tragic thing is, the products of these wet markets are unaffordable for most Chinese. The entire world is put at risk because a narrow sliver of Beijing's elite want exotic wild game. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14738798 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14738798