This is exactly my point. What exactly makes you think this is the case? How do you know there are animals in 'poor health' there? Maybe the term itself isn't

This is exactly my point. What exactly makes you think this is the case? How do you know there are animals in 'poor health' there? Maybe the term itself isn't the problem, but the way it was used in American media, especially during the Trump administration. The term, and it's connotations were used in a way to disparage Chinese people. It has been used to suggest the reason we have this pandemic is because these 'inferior' people are eating bats and weird animals in their 'dirty' wet markets.