Calling the coronavirus the ‘Chinese virus’ matters – research connects the label with racist bias

The Conversation ^ | 2/18/22 | Brad Bushman Professor of Communication and Rinehart Chair of Mass Communication, The Ohio State Un

[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.”

[Salman]

Also, don't call monkey pox "monkey pox".

It offends someone or other. At least so I have been told.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Trump doesn't call it the Chinese, or even Han, virus. He calls it the China virus. It's not racist. It's standing up for our nation against a potential enemy nation.

But he really should be calling it the Fauci Fly.

[Biblebelter]

Kung flu.

Call me a racist.

By the definition of the Marxists and Elite Stream Media, I am a racist and every demeaning label in their vocabulary.

I am a white Christian heterosexual male who believes nations have borders and I am proudly possessive of my gas stove and carbon emitting vehicle.

[MuttTheHoople]

There's rumors that the 1918-1920 Spanish flu originated in China and spread to the trenches, but was called the Spanish Flu because they were a neutral country.

The 1968-71 Asian flu is rumored to have started in China, spread to Thailand, and was brought back to the United States by US soldiers.

[LS]

Don’t care. It’s still the China Virus.

[delchiante]

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Stopped reading right there...

[Glad2bnuts]

Covid was invented in the US. It is misdirection to call it the Wuhan flu/virus. The thing was developed in NC USA, Fauci was the bastard midwife, the NIH scientists were at the heart of it all.

[Farmerbob]

You can’t leave comments at ‘theconversation’? Maybe they should change the name to ‘thediatribe”.

[Da Coyote]

Uh, it’s the TRUTH that matters, silly, naive journalist.

[D_Idaho]

Saying “Chinese” is biased? What else would you call something created in China?

[utax]

The correct term is “chinese disease”.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Spanish flu, German measles, democrat dementia. What’s the problem?
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They don’t want people to be reminded it was China that unleashed this virus on the world.

[StAnDeliver]

"China virus" is far less than what WHO did when they skipped variant Xi for Omicron, which went on to affect and injure exponentially more people than Alpha and Delta.

How far more fitting it would have been for Xi to have been saddled as the namesake of his own bioweapon? But karma will come to him just the same...

[SunkenCiv]

NTSA.

Research my ass.

[Ozymandias Ghost]

We should call it the CCP Virus.

[Kozy]

I contacted the WUHAN VIRUS and barely survived. I call it Wuhan Virus. It's like people have different pronouns and I have to use them. So people have to use Wuhan Virus when discussed my illnesses.

[Pollard]

Chinkbug
KungFlu
FauciFlu

[DPMD]

Racist? Tough $hit. Its development by China was no accident. Of course, we could also call it the China/Fauci virus.

[lefty-lie-spy]

LOL. Those were the examples I was just going to post too.

[Nervous Tick]

Kung Flu is my personal choice for rona label. Is that rasis’?