It's only going to get worse for everybody thanks to the "bat soup" lie (the virus came from a lab; be on accident or intentionally released, this was no bout of random chance from a wet market like China and the media want us all to believe).
Those in power had an uphill battle before due to the fact that, unless you lived deep in Florida where the threat of invasive species taking over was a very real issue, there were no substantial grounds to forbid the ownership of exotics. But now ALL OF THEM have the perfect silver bullet to get their way, "future pandemic prevention." Those 3 little words will be all it takes to systematically strip away our rights to own not just reptiles, but potentially almost any animal. The insane broad-sweeping New York ban proposal is a sign of what's coming for all of us.