There was a rumor that the cleaning crew at that virus lab was selling the test bats to that seafood market (which carved up about anything brought in, not just fish)
“There was a rumor that the cleaning crew at that virus lab was selling the test bats to the seafood market”
Very likely. The construction of this lab in 2017 was protested and not recommended because of this very problem by world health organizations. This was most likely a bio-weapons lab in spite of the Chinese calling it something else, friendlier and fuzzier.
It’s a BSL-4 lab! The cleaning crew shouldn’t have access to these labs, the vivarium, or the waste facilities. If the meat of the lab animals was being sold to markets it was done by lab technicians not a member of a cleaning crew.
They're called 'Wet Markets'.
They sell any living thing. Descriptions of live animals stuffed into cages are straight out of horror movies.
The population of an historically over-populated country chronically poor and unable to produce quality food has resulted in scavenging for anything that walks, flies, and slithers in mud and slime.