It isn't just wet markets, it would be animal farming in general. We've seen that mink farms have the same problems. Pigs were the source of both the 2009 and

It isn't just wet markets, it would be animal farming in general. We've seen that mink farms have the same problems. Pigs were the source of both the 2009 and 1918 H1N1 pandemics. Chickens and other birds farmed for food could be the source of a bird flu pandemic. The correct response would be to start shutting it all down. All farms with crowded animals are bioreactors which create "serial passage" experiments which can be utilized by viruses for natural gain of function. That will sure as hell not happen, not in my lifetime anyway. And we'd have to admit that the vegans were right all along for a start. I have this funny mental image in my head of all the people who like their BBQ and smoked meats an bacon one day waking up in the morning and realizing that the pandemic was due to meat farming and everyone shuffling off to apologize to the local vegan community one by one like they're repenting their sins. The way that feels so absurd and the contrast with all the common vegan jokes and acceptance that to be part of our culture that you have to eat meat shows how that just isn't going to happen. So we're probably going to be back here in another 5, 10, 20 years or so... (And I'm not vegan at all -- but the pandemic and things like the New Brunswick disease have me thinking of at least shooting more for a flexitarian diet) Oh although the original transmission from bats to humans may have been due to bat guano farming, which is used to fertilize crops, so not even the vegans may be untainted.