This effort will increase the number of hate crimes no doubt about that
the “natural origins” theory is racist as well
“it was on an animal, and jumped to a human, like dozens of highly infectious diseases have done in the past” is racist? Natural origin doesn’t require a person to eat a bat, that was wild speculation from the very beginning because they used the term “wet market” instead of “butcher’s shop” and it triggered all kinds of orientalism in people.
Wet markets are what they’re called. It’s a gigantic barn with tons of stalls and questionable sanitary conditions. They hose off the concrete floors so they’re wet. A butcher’s shop is a shop that handles meat, China has those too. They’re more expensive than the wet markets.
“wet market” is a term that applies to any store that sells meat, as opposed to a “dry market” which does not.
Huh? No, wet markets are a specific kind of market that’s everywhere in China. There are different licenses for those kinds of businesses, they’re a lot easier to qualify for. One reason they always have such shady practices. There’s no such term for “dry market”, they just use the word shop or supermarket.
