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MilwaukeeHokie

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As someone who spent a good chunk of last year in that region of China


I can say that I don't believe the laboratory story for a second. Convenient internet conspiracy stuff but the simple answer is usually the right one. The Henan and Hebei provinces in China are dirt poor and borderline 3rd world if not worse in many places. Open sewers, people pooping in the street, in cities with 1 million plus people that you've never heard of and never will. The wet markets have all kinds of meat just sitting out at ambient temperature for god knows how long. Add to that the Chinese cultural tendency to spit and cough and do all other sorts of less than sanitary things around the food (family style service) and who knows what is brewing over there.

The old saying goes "When China sneezes the world gets a cold". It is 100% true. I personally have never come home from there and not brought home some sort of illness whether it be intestinal or an influenza variant and same goes for most folks I know.

I don't plan on ever going back if I can help it btw and advise others to avoid if they can.
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