What evidence is there to show that the animals sold in that market were 100% farmed? How would anyone be able to trace that? Would it not be reasonable to assume that there is a possiblility that some of the animals were wild and some were farmed. And all you need is one animal infected from the wild to introduce that virus.
You can apply the exact same logic to all sorts of animal products. Can you be 100% that all ducks are farmed and that no hunted wild ducks ever ended up on supermarket shelves?
Besides, while the west turns their noses up at wet markets, they would not think twice about buying rabbits, pheasants and venison at the supermarket or farmers market. Guess what? None of that is farmed.
Like you said, the virus had to have traveled to Wuhan somehow.
Given the available evidence now, it’s looks like a human carrier is the most likely source of the outbreak at the market.
Also, its not just wild animals. It's also the fact they are alive. This is another a massive reason why these types of places are so at risk for viruses. SARS was transmitted thru live poultry, because the virus survived in the live chicken when it was brought to the market live, and then exposed hundreds of people in that market.
The undue focus on life animals being sold is partly the same old western media spin of magnifying differences to suggest causality, but also because Covid didn’t jump directly to humans and that there is an as yet unidentified additional intermediary animal host between bats and people.
But the fact that this mystery host is still unidentified would strongly suggest it isn’t an animal sold at the wet market since that is the most obvious starting point and all of them would have been thoroughly investigated to the point that if one of them was the true source, it would have been identified long before now.
Given that Covid can infect cats, what happens if it is later determined that it was a domestic cat that is the true cause? It killed and eat a wild bat to contracted the virus, passed it onto the owner and started the whole thing. Would you be so quick and keen to advocate the elimination of keeping pets to reduce risks of future pandemics? Domestic cats kills hundreds of millions of wild animals every each and then lick your hands and faces after they licked their butts. From a pure numbers game scenario, they are far far more dangerous than the few thousand wet markets people buy food from that they then cook before eating.
It’s easy to look down your nose at different practices of other cultures and lightly suggest they should stop, but how often do we apply the same standards to what our cultures find perfectly normal?
If the chicken was processed at a factory and frozen and then sold in a store. The chances of a super spreader event is much less likely.
Cough, swine flu, cough.
Its much easier to contain an outbreak in a far away corner. But it's the act of transporting live poultry into a city like Wuhan that can lead to a super spreader event. There should be a ban on live animals being sent to major cities like Wuhan.
Given the long incubation period of Covid, and the fact that people can be contagious without showing symptoms, it is still the most likely scenario that it was a human host who carried the virus to the wet market where it spread to many others. It could just as easily have been a shopping centre or sporting event or any other mass gathering of people. But the western MSM doesn’t care about that because they are chiefly concerned with trying to pin the blame on China when the latest evidence suggest the virus didn’t even originate in China and was merely first detected by the Chinese.
