Posted on 03/21/2020 7:03:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SARS: Saudi Arabian Respiratory Syndrome.
Oh, and let’s never forget “Legionnaires Disease”, AKA “legionellosis”, even though that’s a bacterial disease, not a virus.
That is one theory. It was played up in the PBS documentary.
Another theory is that the virus came, like so many others, from China, where people, pigs, and poultry also live in close proximity. Still other theories point to other places. Some scholars are taking the mild impact the virus had on China as evidence that it couldn't have started there. Others say that the flu didn't hit China hard because people already had immunity to similar strains. Still others claim that the virus did hit China hard.
Also a subject of debate: whether the flu really did hit younger and healthier people harder for some biological reasons, or whether it was the overcrowding and unhygienic conditions in the camps and trenches that put so many of the young at risk.
What about the German measles and the Spanish flu?
5.56mm
The New York Times said Chinese Flu and Wuhan Flu before Trump did. Then they turned around and called him racist.
I’ve never been much of an NFL fan, but growing up in Texas, well Cowboys!
I’m wanting a Cowboy jersey with number 01, and the name XENOPHOBE.
By the way, I call it the Kung Flu!
“Trump’s slur against China earns global censure[from the world “leaders” who are losing the battle against the virus.”
No surprise, coming from china daily. Filthy communists who hate this country and Trump. Keep your crappy junk and your viruses in your country!
So...Chink flu is absolutely out of the question?
Probably better than some descriptive terms.
Indeed even plants get in name game Dutch Elm disease.......................................
While China spreads the lie that we GAVE them the virus. Blaming US soldiers there for some event in September.
Ching chong ding dong... Eff off Chicom propagandists. You turds own this mess. It’s the Chicom Virus. Trump is right.
“Except Spanish Flu never came from Spain. It was named that because the King of Spain caught it.”
IIRC, it was called “Spanish Flu” because Spain was the first non-combatant WWI nation it reached, and they reported it in their press. Reporting on it by newspapers in the US, UK, Germany, etc., was censored because it impacted military capabilities.
The amount of racism in the world is sickening.
Only a bigot and a racist would think that saying “the Chinese virus” is racist.
This is so over the top that it reads like the Babylon Bee. I had to check the source to be sure. China Daily has inadvertently written satire.
I prefer “Chinese Bat Soup Virus.”
F#CK THE CHINKS!
Your middle graphic, I could have sworn it said "Human Market" not Huanan Market!
It really sucks getting old.
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