Poor little primate..yeah ending exotic animal trade ends more than one problem, but its now imperative for public health along with things like animal rights.

Your orange hero signed off on it too. — praxis

Yeah, he had to. What would you and your "mainstream" media say if had held it up because of all the pork?
We`d all need earplugs in that case.

If you ask me, there's a slight discrepancy in pointing the finger at culture for disease outbreaks. Culture is passed down from generation to generation, over many hundreds and even thousands of years, and if they're extant to this day, it's precisely because they're low threat or safe in re disease transmission. Think of it; had a cultural practice been a good mode of transmitting virulent, fatal diseases, wouldn't it have wiped out the population that it was a part of?

Also there's a difference between the source of an infection and its mode of transmission and culture can be related to either or both.

If a cultural practice is only a source of an infection, as has the bush meat eating habit been for the coronavirus, it's not much of a problem as the infection will not spread and while those infected may fall ill or die, the population as a whole remains unaffected.

However, if a cultural practice is a mode of disease transmission, we have a major problem in our hands as the disease will spread rapidly and affect the entire population.

The danger will peak if a cultural practice is both the source of an infection and also a mode of disease transmission.

There seems little doubt in people's minds that the current coronavirus pandemic originates in the bush meat eating habit of the Chinese. This is an instance of a cultural practice serving as a source of an infection.

However, how has the coronavirus spread around the globe? The transmission takes place through respiratory means and, as far as I can tell, coughing and sneezing don't belong to any culture. If a cultural component exists in coronavirus transmission, it has to be the world's favorite greeting gesture, the handshake. There maybe others but nothing comes to mind at the moment

In summary then, the coronavirus' source is in Chinese culture but the mode of transmission has either no cultural aspect, like coughing and sneezing, to it or if it has, it's a global culture - the handshake being one.

Yeah, he had to. What would you and your "mainstream" media say if had held it up because of all the pork?
We`d all need earplugs in that case. — Nobeernolife

Depending on which pork, a lot or nothing, I imagine. The Democrats held it up because they didn’t like parts of it at one point. Your media had something to say about that.