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::::In reviewing all the evidence, I would suggest the mis-translation of "wet market" to "seafood market" originates with Google translators.  It was suspect from the beginning: ''How could a seafood market exist in an inland city where lakes and rivers are too polluted to provide a food source for the city, and the residents who eat live animals are too poor to pay the freight of luxury food items trucked in from the coast?'' But the brilliant geniuses at Google Translate, along with the brilliant geniuses in mainstream media are just plainly too stupid to question their own common sense. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]} 11:41, 16 April 2020 (EDT)

::::In reviewing all the evidence, I would suggest the mis-translation of "wet market" to "seafood market" originates with Google translators.  It was suspect from the beginning: ''How could a seafood market exist in an inland city where lakes and rivers are too polluted to provide a food source for the city, and the residents who eat live animals are too poor to pay the freight of luxury food items trucked in from the coast?'' But the brilliant geniuses at Google Translate, along with the brilliant geniuses in mainstream media are just plainly too stupid to question their own common sense. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]} 11:41, 16 April 2020 (EDT)

:::::According to the ''[http://news.foodmate.net/2012/09/214347.html Wuhan Evening News]'', the city buys 1.3-1.5 billion yuan ($210 million) worth of seafood a year. The Huanan Market is the "largest seafood and aquatic products wholesale trading market in central China." So, yes, it really is a seafood market. In Chinese, the name is 武汉华南海鲜批发市场/Wǔhàn huánán hǎixiān pīfā shìchǎng. This translates as "Wuhan South China Seafood Wholesale Market." (The article recommends that you eat more seafood as a cure for gout. This is such a stereotype-confirming touch that I had to mention it.)

:::::According to the ''[http://news.foodmate.net/2012/09/214347.html Wuhan Evening News]'', the city buys 1.3-1.5 billion yuan ($210 million) worth of seafood a year. The Huanan Market is the "largest seafood and aquatic products wholesale trading market in central China." So, yes, it really is a seafood market. In Chinese, the name is 武汉华南海鲜批发市场/Wǔhàn huánán hǎixiān pīfā shìchǎng. This translates as "Wuhan South China Seafood Wholesale Market." (The article recommends that you eat more seafood as a cure for gout. This is such a stereotype-confirming touch that I had to mention it.)

:::::Every theory that's been floated concerning the origin of the covid-19 pandemic has been convincingly debunked. [https://gulfnews.com/world/coronavirus-did-not-jump-from-wuhans-seafood-market-heres-the-evidence-1.1586936434717 It wasn't the Huanan Market]. [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/ It wasn't Shi Zhengli's lab]. [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9 It wasn't genetic engineering]. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25731 It wasn't pangolins], etc. The virus developed in a bat in a cave in rural Yunnan in the far south. Then, for no obvious reason, it begin infecting humans near a bat coronavirus research lab in central China. Bats and humans don't interact much and disease rarely passes between them. The bat caves of Yunnan are 800 miles from Wuhan. Yet that's the story as it stands. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 06:23, 17 April 2020 (EDT)

:::::Every theory that's been floated concerning the origin of the covid-19 pandemic has been convincingly debunked. [https://gulfnews.com/world/coronavirus-did-not-jump-from-wuhans-seafood-market-heres-the-evidence-1.1586936434717 It wasn't the Huanan Market]. [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/ It wasn't Shi Zhengli's lab]. [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0820-9 It wasn't genetic engineering]. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25731 It wasn't pangolins], etc. The virus developed in a bat in a cave in rural Yunnan in the far south. Then, for no obvious reason, it begin infecting humans near a bat coronavirus research lab in central China. Bats and humans don't interact much and disease rarely passes between them, at least not directly. The bat caves of Yunnan are 800 miles from Wuhan. Yet that's the story as it stands. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 06:23, 17 April 2020 (EDT)