Actually when I was in China briefly, many household use boiling hot water for oil removal and cleaning kitchen utensils to reduce detergent usage. The extra screening is a precaution in case of cross-species transmission which is very possible due to high mutation rates in coronaviruses. I used to work for 2 years in a biosafety class 3 lab.
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I do understand the official line explanation for the extra screening - but then why wasn't it introduced in Feb-Mar-April when the whole world was bleating about cross-species transmission and blaming bats? The shift in screening process for only imported meat before processing and only from known epidemic sites in late July? Something changed beyond the high mutation argument, which has been an issue since 2010, and before. An escalating bio-trade-war? Interesting timing, given the expulsion of chinese and US consulates last Thursday. Coincidentally on almost the same day the new imported meat testing was announced.
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From Feb-Apr, CCP spent a lot of time to contain the COVID-19 within China and to establish patient zero. If patient zero was an American soldier then it's biowarfare but if patient zero was a Chinese researcher then cross-species transmission highly likely as the source of virus was from bats. Recently, a new strain of H1N1 swine flu known as G4 was detected in China. Therefore this could be the reason to even more vigorous screenings. COVID19 + G4 leads to super pandemic.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/30/new-swine-flu-with-pandemic-potential-identified-by-china-researchers
I totally agree with you that we should stop consuming meat because the poultry industry is the hotbed of disease. Most poultry farms are managed poorly to maximize profit. The way they treat animals are cruel and unethical. Animals and humans alike should not be confined in tight spaces.
As for uncontrollable infection rate in the US. There were speculations about hospitals getting compensation for every dead patient. Therefore patients died due to organ failure caused by far too much drugs and tranquilizers pumped into the body than that they could handle.
G4 is particularly concerning and yes, stopping with consuming meat is a sensible call. I'm very happy to have made it. As I said, we were already 95% that way before Covid, for health, ethics and cruelty reasons.
The thing is G4 is already inside China and the testing is NOT - it's only mandated for imported animals and meat from external known epidemic hotspots . Along with the amped up track'n'trace. Interestingly there is a case in Brabandt - in my mother country Holland, where a farm worker purportedly gave Covid to minks in a mink farm, who gave it to other minks, who gave it back to other workers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01574-4
Clearly it's an evolving scenario. But, in my mind at least, there is a lot of evidence (albeit circumstantial) to suggest that meat contributes to the spread of Covid.
I think people need to consider that so they can make informed personal choices.
Thanks for the interesting article! The testing might have to do with fear of mutation in 2nd and 3rd wave infections from other countries back into China. The article below is about cross-species transmission. Yes, COVID-19 most likely live in different types of meat.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25682
There is also a theory about the earlier virus carried back by American soldiers during their training in Wuhan before the outbreak to be even more virulent (aggressive) than existing ones in China. Viruses are complicated as they mutate at different rates within different organisms and different environment. When they mutate, researchers need to readjust vaccine formulation and target region to induce immunity.
Here is the article about the L strain (aggressive) and S strain (less aggressive) within China itself.
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-mutations.html
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/7/6/1012/5775463
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