COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Except that most of the rest of the world doesn't have a history of coronavirus outbreaks originating from their markets. The fact that China shut them down after the SARS outbreak should tell you something. Eventually they just let them reopen. Maybe they shouldn't have.

Coronavirus variants are far from the only threat. But, I don't disagree that China should have shut them down and so should other countries around the world. Even if you ignore the horrible treatment of the animals at those things, the danger of spreading other types of viruses from wet markets around the world exists.