[deanhills]

China has huge population and it can't be all educated, progressive, modern... not yet. So how are they supposed to control the peeps....it is also impossible to take every new virus / pathogen seriously and shut everything until investigation ends and all that. All that takes huge time and new strains come surprisingly often, especially in RNA virus. so how much change or what change should be detected as dangerous....even if we automate the mutation detection tomake it fast ?? You need to see the effect. also it gets even more complicated for democracies. you need numbers to convince normal people and opposition for that lockdown. and still many are not convinced. just look what is happening around the world now. does that make you feel like any other country could even respond as fast as china did ?

I will give you that cow example. Just check e coli infection in Europe and it can come from cow dung. Now so many people in india just live breath eat cow dung.e coli is there in india too. but not the dangerous strains yet ... but is that even remotely predictable when a dangerous strain is going to evolve ?? should everyone ban them cows or need to start wearing gloves or how do they handle it ?

read about cannibalism and prion infection and mad cow disease.

every animal we come in direct contact with has potential to be like this. more or less. they didn't cook it properly and now how are you going to teach it to everyone in a country. or enforce its adherence.

these things will keep happening ... we will keep improving too. that is how it works.

Call it China virus if you will, i am strongly against the blame game.

it is not that i love China or anything. it is just so neanderthal ....

this is just the way some talk about atomic bombs and 2nd world war. if you are not at that seat taking decisions and being responsible and all that, believe me you are missing a lot of angles and nuances. running a war is not the same like running a charity. They should not have used A bomb. just civilians ...blah blah.....

you will have to read about all the ways one gets ill by something that is in our environment. Then with this logic, we will have to abandon everything...

I'm thinking more along the public health lines of getting rid of the food market situation that created the SARS virus in the first place. Possibly the public health standards are not high enough? The markets are too congregated and heavily populated, and the animals aren't necessarily hygienically treated. Like they're squashed into crates.

Like why has the virus not come from India for example? India has almost as high a population as China. But they are mostly vegetarians. And as far as I know they normally treat their animals with respect. There are certain guidelines that need to be followed. I'm not so sure China is following those. They have strange food choices that may be unhealthy.

2)) it is going to stay, but in a very dumbed down form. that is how evolution works. so no worries. will become like another flu ...but with some consequences for its neurotrophic behaviour.....like small pox.

What a relief! However, we're still in the beginning of the virus here in South Africa. We still have to survive the first wave first.