I know there are arguments about if COVID-19 really did originate in a wet market, but I think experts are pretty much in agreement that it did.
So are these markets now more tightly controlled? I mean, as in live seafood and poultry are okay, but wildlife like bats and pangolins and bears are banned?
Would that help?
Seems to me, any reduction in wild meats would just be replaced with more demand for domesticated meats, which are just as likely to be the source of a zoonotic infection. Maybe more so, as the animals spend their whole lives around humans.
For example: Bird flu came from poultry, MERS came from camels.