Coronavirus skeptics

[Thereisalight..]

2 hours ago, hk blues said:

They are a vital part of daily life in many countries, including in Hong Kong and the Philippines where I now live.  Closing them down would not be an option at all - they are often the only places for miles where people can buy food and produce.  Sure, lessons are to be learned but closing them down  isn't an option in a lot of countries.  

I didn’t know eating bats, snakes or dogs heads were deemed as “vital”. 

[Granny Danger]

3 hours ago, hk blues said:

They are a vital part of daily life in many countries, including in Hong Kong and the Philippines where I now live.  Closing them down would not be an option at all - they are often the only places for miles where people can buy food and produce.  Sure, lessons are to be learned but closing them down  isn't an option in a lot of countries.  

What a wonderful bit of understatement.  The questions are, will lessons be learnt and how serious could the impact be if they aren’t.

[hk blues]

1 minute ago, Thereisalight.. said:

I didn’t know eating bats, snakes or dogs heads were deemed as “vital”. 

Such things are not commonly found in wet markets.  As I've said elsewhere on this thread, wet markets are almost always a mix of butchers, florists, greengrocers and fishmongers - you will rarely see the things  you mention.  I have lived and travelled in Asia for more than 25 years and the  most unusual thing i've seen was toads - and they eat them in France so there you go.  

You'd be surprised at how Asians view some of the stuff we eat.

[hk blues]

1 minute ago, Granny Danger said:

What a wonderful bit of understatement.  The questions are, will lessons be learnt and how serious could the impact be if they aren’t.

It was hardly the point of my post.   

[Thereisalight..]

1 minute ago, hk blues said:

Such things are not commonly found in wet markets.  As I've said elsewhere on this thread, wet markets are almost always a mix of butchers, florists, greengrocers and fishmongers - you will rarely see the things  you mention.  I have lived and travelled in Asia for more than 25 years and the  most unusual thing i've seen was toads - and they eat them in France so there you go.  

You'd be surprised at how Asians view some of the stuff we eat.

Obviously nobody wants florists, greengrocers etc going out of business. I do think they should ban the “extreme” selling of items that I mentioned. Immaterial if they’re a rare find or not

[Honest_Man#1]

2 hours ago, Thereisalight.. said:

I didn’t know eating bats, snakes or dogs heads were deemed as “vital”. 

What about cows?

[Granny Danger]

5 hours ago, hk blues said:

It was hardly the point of my post.   

Your posts rarely have a point.

[Thereisalight..]

3 hours ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

What about cows?

Well to me eating no animals is vital (I’m vegetarian). 

[The Moonster]

8 minutes ago, Thereisalight.. said:

Well to me eating no animals is vital (I’m vegetarian). 

Are you vegetarian by choice?

[Adam]

Well to me eating no animals is vital (I’m vegetarian). 

It’s all beginning to fall into place after reading this post.

[Theroadlesstravelled]

6 hours ago, hk blues said:

Such things are not commonly found in wet markets.  As I've said elsewhere on this thread, wet markets are almost always a mix of butchers, florists, greengrocers and fishmongers - you will rarely see the things  you mention.  I have lived and travelled in Asia for more than 25 years and the  most unusual thing i've seen was toads - and they eat them in France so there you go.  

You'd be surprised at how Asians view some of the stuff we eat.

Your point was ruined by using the French as an example of normality. 

[Thereisalight..]

35 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

Are you vegetarian by choice?

By choice. What other way is there?

[Turkmenbashi]

7 hours ago, Thereisalight.. said:

I didn’t know eating bats, snakes or dogs heads were deemed as “vital”. 

You do realise the bats thing comes remote islands in the Pacific Ocean, like Palau, where bats are the only real "meat" available. As far as what I have read nobody else really eats bats.

Got to remember that haggis isn't seen as food in the USA.

i say this as someone who is also a vegetarian. 

Edited May 21, 2020 by Turkmenbashi

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 hour ago, Thereisalight.. said:

Well to me eating no animals is vital (I’m vegetarian). 

Really? I'm surprised you never said before.

Edited May 21, 2020 by Sergeant Wilson

[BFTD]

18 minutes ago, Turkmenbashi said:

Got to remember that haggis isn't seen as food in the USA.

Not just the US. I seem to remember Sandi Toksvig saying on QI that the word 'offal' comes from a Danish word meaning 'rubbish'. There's a bit of a north/south divide in England too, with organ consumption being considered for riff-raff by the time you get to the Home Counties.

Frankly, they can all f**k off and eat a skinned shite.

[hk blues]

19 hours ago, Thereisalight.. said:

Obviously nobody wants florists, greengrocers etc going out of business. I do think they should ban the “extreme” selling of items that I mentioned. Immaterial if they’re a rare find or not

I agree but then again one man's meat is another man's poison.  

[hk blues]

13 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

Your posts rarely have a point.

Ah well, at least sometimes they do then.  

[hk blues]

12 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

Your point was ruined by using the French as an example of normality. 

Yep, I fucked it there. 

[The Moonster]

13 hours ago, Thereisalight.. said:

By choice. What other way is there?

Just find it weird you've chosen a diet that protects the life of others but when it comes to protecting human lives you're a selfish arsehole.

[Thereisalight..]

4 hours ago, The Moonster said:

Just find it weird you've chosen a diet that protects the life of others but when it comes to protecting human lives you're a selfish arsehole.

I never liked the texture of meat, bone, fat, gristle etc. As for protecting human life’s, of course I don’t want folk to die. I just feel if a vaccine isn’t found, we can’t live with restrictions forever.