<story><title>Scientists fear pandemic&apos;s &apos;hyper hygiene&apos; could have long-term health impacts</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-downside-of-clean-scientists-fear-pandemics-hyper-hygiene-could-have-long-term-health-impacts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance.&lt;p&gt;E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>okprod</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a misconception that all wet markets transmit disease; they are basically markets that sell fresh foods like vegetables. A portion, probably a minority, sell &amp;quot;exotic&amp;quot; animal meat, and even then &amp;quot;exotic&amp;quot; is a biased perspective.</text></comment>
<story><title>Scientists fear pandemic&apos;s &apos;hyper hygiene&apos; could have long-term health impacts</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-downside-of-clean-scientists-fear-pandemics-hyper-hygiene-could-have-long-term-health-impacts</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>It will probably work itself out in the long term though and people will return to nominal levels of risk tolerance.&lt;p&gt;E.g. China has reopened wet markets even though we now know it is hugely dangerous to the world. Sigh</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>faitswulff</author><text>&amp;quot;Wet markets&amp;quot; are just farmers&amp;#x27; markets.</text></comment>