The tragedy is that this was *very much* on the agenda of experts at least since since SARS. Almost exactly as it happened. I'm trying to see if I can find my slides but this is pretty much the scenario I taught when I used to teach introduction to sociology (roughly 2005-2010). https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1237008520085524480 …
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Experts were ALARMED the first week of January. I tend to be lackadaisical with health. Rarely sick. I joke about my third-world immune system. I eat street food everywhere. That week, I put Asia travel on hold, purchased masks etc. We had months to prepare but, sadly, didn't.
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It's not correct twice a day thing. News of a mystery virus linked to a seafood/wet market (thus likely zoonotic), along with news of the punishment of whistleblower doctors by the Chinese authorities? Don't need to have watched a movie. We had SARS and other incidents. We knew.
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China neads to ban such markets.
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life finds a way, problem is not that market but our global market.....
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It was also literally the plot to the 2011 Soderbergh movie Contagion.
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