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Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets by brodouevencode on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:55PM (#22622297)
Mad cow could hardly be called a pandemic. A whopping 231 total cases. It caused a little economic damage and comparatively no human damage.
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Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets by arcticbull on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:57PM (#22622338)
A lot of economic damage, over 4.4 million cows were slaughtered [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45906585

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Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets by brodouevencode on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:16PM (#22622506)
Comparatively small. Estimates are that cost about $5.7b USD over the course of 5 years[0]. Conservative estimates are that it's going to cost $2.7t USD, and that was from before it was labeled a pandemic. [1]

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/37404/11780_ld... [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-pandemic...

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Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets by himinlomax on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @08:52PM (#22623203)
All restaurants, museums, bars, cinemas, gyms, airlines and so on are currently closed in Europe.

The economic damage is going to be at least a 1000 times worse.

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Re:Time to Ban Wet Markets by arcticbull on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:45PM (#22634631)
I wasn't comparing it to nCoV-19, I stated it was a lot of damage in absolute terms.
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