>>9855237It wasn't. The fact that the whole wet market and exotic animals from China trade could bring new types of illnesses was known for a good while. Even worse, they acted against these during the SARS, but let them reactivate after it. This is like the Soviet Union building Chernobyl's reactors without concrete domes. Sure, it was an accident, but an easily preventable one, and now they are trying to shift the blame.
