People will start to wash their hands more, touch their faces less, and avoid sick people more because of checklists to avoid coronavirus that people are sharing online.
I'd love to avoid sick people. Can we make them wear signs saying that they're sick?
In Asia, there is a culture of wearing face masks when you're sick. This serves as both a signal to others, and also helps reduce your infected droplet emission. Also it means you can still go to events and not have to stay home.
Enforcing this habit in the west is the best solution IMHO. Currently, it's too uncommon for people to wear face masks there. Once the critical mass of people decide to do so, then people won't feel weird about it and will all start to take that habit.
Part of the problem is that people might get (subtly) shames/shunned for being out and about with a cold if they turn up wearing a mask. So they get pushed into the less obvious but more pernicious solution. (A measure that is managed ceases to be a useful measure)
Not really, since people with viral infections (e.g. cold, flu, corona virus) are often contagious before showing symptoms.
Only problem is about once a month we get sick after going there.
Usually its just a cold or something. But it's been the stomach flu at least once.
Would avoid it, but damn if its not a convenient place for the kids to play in the evenings.
https://www.popsci.com/story/health/wuhan-coronavirus-china-...
And really, the researchers are just saying it may not have originated in that specific market, but are still saying it's likely related to trade of live wild animals.
These workers allow the economies to grow and in turn demand they be treated as first class citizens.
I am not sure how this is “dismantling culture”
> The outbreak has had a decidedly dehumanizing effect, reigniting old strains of racism and xenophobia that frame Chinese people as uncivilized, barbaric “others” who bring with them dangerous, contagious diseases and an appetite for dogs, cats, and other animals outside the norms of Occidental diets.
https://www.eater.com/2020/1/31/21117076/coronavirus-incites...
It's also not directed specifically towards Chinese; the same criticisms have been leveled at Africans for the same reasons when the same practices caused similar outbreaks, so it's not a specific dislike of Chinese.
HIV, lassa fever, SARS, Ebola, and more have been caused by eating bushmeat. That's not racism, that's epidemiology.
An example of the former case is people tend to blame others for consuming meat they don't usually do, even if the animals were bred in a farm. Check the controversy around bamboo rats for a more specific example.
Example of misinformation: see the controversy around a video showing Chinese woman eating bat soup. Except it is not even filmed in China, it is in Palau and being a tourist thing. The behavior is still questionable and should not be encouraged, but the public reaction on this is almost entirely missing the point. Unfortunately video spreads across language burden, but words don't, it is almost impossible to debunk.
So, calling this a cultural or racial issue is very much a straw man argument.
PS: If anything it’s the term bush meat that’s confusing the issue. Eating deer, rabbits, quails, and squirrels etc represents real risks to human heath. But, outdoor markets significantly increase these risks in several ways.
*incompetence: if the law is enforced more strictly, turkey will be banned too because the regulation on what you can sell hasn't been updated for decades and not including much.
The US is making equally risky decisions, but no one here is clamoring about that. Bush meat is no different than wild-caught meat, yet you use a derogatory term for it simply because it doesn't align with your cultural values.
> Even today, the U.S. is far from a paragon of food-safety regulations gone right. The routine use of antibiotics in factory farming has helped create drug-resistant bacteria that cause foodborne illnesses.
Western people do eat "exotic" meat during special occasions too.
In France, for Christmas and New Year's eve, a lot of people will eat boar or roe, which is pretty much not consumed at all during other times of the year. Hell, I have even heard that ostrich and kangaroo were trendy some years ago.
We are just more lucky that western "exotic" meat does not carry as much viruses as tropical / equatorial wild animals do.