It's important not to confuse a people with their government, especially when said government is totalitarian and eminently corrupt. > could have happened anyw

It's important not to confuse a people with their government, especially when said government is totalitarian and eminently corrupt. > could have happened anywhere Yes, in the same sense that anyone can win a lottery. But don't get innumeracy here. China is huge and the combinatorics of wet market contamination push it several orders of magnitude in probability away from any other place on the earth. Yes, even from African bush meat markets. > This is a direct consequence of their agricultural practices ... of wild meat being disproportionately supported by the government. > if a little bit of cultural shaming works towards preventing the next pandemic, then I think that's pretty well worth it at this point. I'm not entirely sure why race and racism keep coming up in this discussion. It has nothing to do with race, only nation state and culture, sanitation and biology. But sure, ok.