Mimic nature or create peril
October 29, 2021 § Leave a comment
Many of the wild animals that were butchered in the Wuhan markets are susceptible to infection and can transmit viruses. And they were often stored in cramped, unhygienic conditions, making it easy for pathogens to jump species. The storage and handling of the animals has long been a matter of concern, partly because similar conditions led to serious problems elsewhere in the country. In 2002, the SARS-CoV coronavirus first appeared in and around a similar market in the southern Chinese city of Foshan, about 621 miles from Wuhan. More than a third of the early patients who developed the SARS disease were food handlers who likely had close contact with some of these same animals.
The less nature imitating the circumstances humans create, the greater the likelihood of danger and risk and risk of an ‘unnatural’ kind.
Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988) 
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