I take your point, but a halfway house is maybe to ban those live animals which are known transmitters to humans ( bats, badgers, civets, for starters) Animals that we have managed across the globe in markets ( pigs, sheep, poultry, etc) are far less a risk as history has shown. A combination of excluding some animals, better sanitation in the market-places, etc would be a good measure and properly policed with appropriate punishments for infractions and underfground black-marketeers, with punishments for those regulators that turn a blind eye, have their hands out for greasing, or simply dont follow through. Geez, the Chinese government has 1 billion people under control, why not apply some meaningful control on these wet markets . Anyway, at the end of the China has unleashed a plague on us an the Chinese government should hang its head in shame. To say they have "lost face" in the eyes of the world would be an understatement, and "face" means everything to them. Divert some money from expansionist policies and spend it on securing future healthy food supply.
