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> The only thing we can do is handle it like we handle Iran or North Korea That sounds like a great way to _never_ find out what really happened, and boycott 1
by twelve40 7y ago
> The only thing we can do is handle it like we handle Iran or North Korea
That sounds like a great way to _never_ find out what really happened, and boycott 1.4 billion people in the process.
- petre 7y agoWe already know what happened: messing around with wildlife. Wildlife smuggling. Open air markets where meat is processed near potentially sick wild animals that are kept in cages. Bushmeat (Ebola). Caring for camels who got it from bats (MERS). Preparing monkeys for dinner, whoops a knife cut (AIDS). Habitat destruction (Lyme). There's a reason they're called zootonic diseases. Maybe another accidental lab escape. Does it really matter? Then what? Wildlife smuggling should have been banned anyway but I guess "lab escape" sounds more pressworthy. I realize there are people who have no other option or education in Africa but China is quite a different story.