"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.
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.
So the first time I read the term I looked it up on wikipedia and this is how it's described:
A wet market (also called a public market[4] or a traditional market[5]) is a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish, produce, and other perishable goods as distinguished from "dry markets" that sell durable goods such as fabric and electronics.[9] These include a wide variety of markets, such as farmers' markets, fish markets, and wildlife markets.[13] Not all wet markets sell live animals,[16] but the term wet market is sometimes used to signify a live animal market in which vendors slaughter animals upon customer purchase,[20] such as is done with poultry in Hong Kong.[21] Wet markets are common in many parts of the world,[25] notably in China, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. They often play critical roles in urban food security due to factors of pricing, freshness of food, social interaction, and local cultures.[26]
So if there's a connotation to the term that I'm not aware of then I just don't know it, but the impression I got was that it was just a place that sold meat.
"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.
So the first time I read the term I looked it up on wikipedia and this is how it's described:
So if there's a connotation to the term that I'm not aware of then I just don't know it, but the impression I got was that it was just a place that sold meat.
Wikipedia. There's your problem.