Is there anything that the communist Democrats in this country will blame China for? For weeks they and their acolytes in the media called anyone who suggested that the coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab, not the wet markets as the Chinese originally told everyone to believe. Now, the Democrats are even defending the brutal wet markets were they chop up live animals and sell it as food.
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An Illinois Democrat who has blamed President Trump for coronavirus deaths defended Chinese wet markets at a Monday tele-townhall, ignoring the scientific consensus that they are breeding grounds for deadly diseases.
“I think we need to be careful about laying all the blame on a particular cultural practice in a country that we don’t live in,” Rep. Sean Casten (D., Ill.) told his constituents. “These viruses could hop from animals to humans, but you don’t shut that down just by shutting down a particular cultural practice that we aren’t familiar with.”
Casten has frequently accused President Donald Trump of killing Americans by disseminating misinformation about the pandemic, going so far as to say the president’s daily coronavirus briefings are “getting people killed.” His defense of wet markets, however, contradicts a scientific consensus dating back to 2006 that such markets pose a significant public health risk. While China has restricted the country’s scientists from pinpointing the exact origins of the virus, existing evidence suggests that the virus started in a wet market in Wuhan, China.
Casten’s defense of wet markets also runs counter to the policies advocated by Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top doctor on the Trump administration’s coronavirus taskforce.
“[They] should shut down those things right away,” Fauci said on April 2, referring to the wet markets. “It just boggles my mind that when we have so many diseases that emanate out of that unusual human-animal interface that we don’t just shut it down.”
This is not the first time Casten has disseminated false information about coronavirus. In March, the congressman refused to assign any blame to China for its mishandling of the pandemic, asserting that “viruses don’t know borders.” In reality, Beijing significantly exacerbated the outbreak by clamping down on whistleblowers and refusing to publicly announce the severity of the disease in the early days of the pandemic. If China responded to the outbreak three weeks earlier, there would have been 95 percent fewer cases, according to one study.