Probably plenty of other unsanitary Chinese traditions help too.

WSS

@calfoxwc said:

hopefully it is contained over there. I keep asking....why stop marmot killing if they carry the disease?

oh, yeah. they are desperate for food.

https://www.rt.com/news/494296-china-warns-kazakhstan-pneumonia/?utm_source=miximedia&utm_medium=miximedia&utm_campaign=Miximedia

The two (or more) worlds of China not exactly just rich/poor the small by their numbers of rich upperclass of tech and business class, the new but not huge growing middle class, the poor factory workers fleeing the countryside for any jobs and the dirt poor outer group with no electricity, running water, sanitation living hand to mouth like they did 100+ years ago.

Oh yeah and eating anything that they can find or kill.

Why? Because they live in a brutal commie dictatorship......and they have their sights zeroed in on us and the rest of the free world.

So much easier to steal your technologies than develop them.  Plus for decades now they are getting ready for the next step.

China still has problems -but- I've feared them more than Russia for decades now even though Putin is trying to fix that cesspool that was the USSR.

I'm so glad that we are retired already, except for the fact my wife's pension is in the wobbly PBGC and has been for years.

Oh well...... what's for dinner tonight.