I now believe the meat market myth has a partial basis in truth. The virus was being studied in the lab, and someone who worked there sold infected bats (not sure if they were dead or not at the time) to the market because in a totalitarian society, you do whatever you can to make a little extra money on the side.
In other words, it came from the market and the lab.
In third world shithole countries? Absolutely. There's a common attitude all around the world, except the West, that it's okay to screw anybody out of anything to get ahead for you and your family. Throw in a command economy where freedoms are restricted, and a relationship with food cleanliness a San Francisco bum would recoil from, and you've got a crucible for plague.
I now believe the meat market myth has a partial basis in truth. The virus was being studied in the lab, and someone who worked there sold infected bats (not sure if they were dead or not at the time) to the market because in a totalitarian society, you do whatever you can to make a little extra money on the side.
In other words, it came from the market and the lab.
Are people really that fucked in the head tho?
In third world shithole countries? Absolutely. There's a common attitude all around the world, except the West, that it's okay to screw anybody out of anything to get ahead for you and your family. Throw in a command economy where freedoms are restricted, and a relationship with food cleanliness a San Francisco bum would recoil from, and you've got a crucible for plague.
It explains the proximity and the being able to narrow it down to that market so damn quickly.