After getting confused by the various names for this virus, I found the following articles on the naming:
so they are quibbling over the name! SARS is too scary. Can’t name it for location (racist), animal (racist) or half a dozen other ridiculous justifications all ending in (racist). And now SARS-2 is (racist) because it (scary) associates with Asia. (racist)
How about Roadrunner-1 - wait, that’s an animal and it’s xenophobic to desert dwellers (and therefore, racist)
Just do numbers then. Shall we rename Ebola and West Nile while were at it? And who is paying these people to sit around and quibble while Rome burns?