Posted on 07/20/2024 9:55:26 AM PDT by DallasBiff
No one wants their geographic region to be associated with a deadly disease. Unfortunately, this has happened in the past with diseases such as “German measles,” “Spanish flu” and “Asiatic cholera.”
It happens today, too, even though the World Health Organization advises against naming pathogens for places to “minimize unnecessary negative effects on nations, economies and people.” By Feb. 11, 2020, the WHO had announced that the official name for the novel coronavirus just starting its spread around the world would be severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 – or SARS-CoV-2. The illness it caused would be called COVID-19, short for Coronavirus Disease of 2019
Yet some politicians, conservative journalists and others persisted in calling the COVID-19 virus the “Chinese virus,” or some variant of this term, such as the “China virus,” “Wuhan virus” (after the Chinese city that first reported the virus), “Chinese flu” and “Kung flu.”
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Chinese is not a race.
I think if your going to make biological weapons,(Gain of Function),and release them, that they should name the virus after the nation that manufactured it and released it.
I don’t think this would be rascist. It would remind the world of such treachery against other humans forever.
That hurts their communist feelings.
Who cares what the Chinese think or do? They’re thieves and murderers.
racist bias ,sustainable , renewable = leftest crap
When the WHO suddenly does a 180 and invents a new rule against their own standard practice (e.g. naming Ebola after the Ebola River) the new rule does not become part of the natural law.
Well, let’s start calling it the faucivirus or election year virus or the thou shall not gather in groups to protest unless your black virus.
Someone needs to shut these people up.
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There, I fixed the headline.
Naw
FU
It is the Wu Flu, Chinese Virus and represents the geographic origination, as well, their cultural failure.
Race isn’t a factor
Exactly!
Is ordering ‘Chinese food’ racist?
Truth isn’t bias, racial or otherwise. It’s just… truth.
China is not a race.
Just calling something “racist” is just another form of censorship.
The Hong Kong Flu
Hmmmm how about CCP lab created bioweapon? Is that racist?
I am over half German and it has never occurred to me that “German measles” is a slur on me or my ancestral homeland.
If China wants wants to avoid being associated with deadly diseases, it needs to stop the lab work and disgusting lifestyle practices that create and spread deadly diseases.
Spanish flu, German measles, democrat dementia. What’s the problem?
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