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He did a good job. Of course, I meant to say that I might NOT be allowed back into China...
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Got this from another journo....very interesting:
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I've been following the wildlife farms part of this from the start [and before that on other stories]. It does not appear there was much of an effort to check captive bred wildlife facilities. 31 farms in Hubei, with about 3,000 animals, were checked. 27,000 sample from "wildlife" across China, but a large part of that appears to be zoo animals if you check the annexes. There's one prefecture with about four counties in it in Western Hubei that had 290 farms and450,000 animals alone at the start of the outbreak. Why would Chinese authorities not check more farms but prepared to shut down so many of them [on the raising for meat consumption side]? Anyone here you think would beable to address that? I'm also confused by the WHO report from November which said their were live wild mammals present at the market prior to Dec. 31, 2019 and the latest study team report which takes the market authority and one Huanan manager'sword for it that there were no live wild mammals at the market at that time. The people who owned Huanan market owned a much larger market in Huangpi, offering similar products. I've not been given a satisfactory answer why this market wasn't investigated. The owner of the Huanan market and this other market himself is quite problematic from a potential wildlifetrafficking perspective, but I can't say much about what I know there at the moment. Just curious if you'd heard anything at all about the ultimate owner [his daughter runs the market, but he owns it]. They were there when the WHO team was there at Huanan, but apparently no one talked to them. Got to get my kids to school. Happy to talk more if you are open to it.Best, SLACK_000894 Michael Michael Standaert(imShenzhen, China
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Yeah, this is very interesting. I do think there's a lot missing from the "market" aspect of this whole story - did they ordid they not have live mammals? Where exactly were animals sourced from? Were all those farms tested?
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2021-04-05 20:02
Edward C. Holmes
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they've already found out exactly there this virus comes from.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they have some very strong clues... But whether they have fully nailed it, I'm not so sure. I'm pretty convinced the obfuscation has to do with this though - they could care less about a lab leak, but if this is aresult of wildlife farming and borderline illegal activities, then that's a problem domestically and internationally.
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Exactly! I couldn't agree more.
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Hoping to get some journos to dig into this.
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Yeah, that's what we need - also, anonymous interviews with people who might have been at the market in November/December.