Posted on 04/01/2020 6:37:47 AM PDT by Enlightened1
this is bs, did anyone speak up when ccp called the swine flu “African swine flu”?
I need to remember that, I should find some use for it.
Call them what they really are. Political Officers. Zampolits. BTW the zampolit was the most despised person in each military unit in the Soviet Union.
Standing up on principle for Free Speech is likely to get you expelled from this formerly great public university system.
It’s bad enough that UC has a “Chief Diversity Officer” at all—they have so many they’ve formed a Council.
Bottom line: This is going to leave a mark.
UC has a strange order of priorities. Academia is a cesspool of Leftist malarkey.
Chink disease is better.
California virus?
Bombard Dem with emails! Subject: China Virus. Body: PRC-Flu, CCP-Flu and Flu you!
What will happen to the offending student ??? GET SHOT?????
The Council of Chief **Diversity** Officers at the **University** of California’
Oxymoron on parade.
What are they going to do about it if you don’t obey?
Spanish Flu
West Nile Virus
Other diseases have had geographical connected names.
I will NOT kowtow to China on anything.
We should ask the Council of Chief Diversity officer what the approved names are for the following diseases:
West Nile Virus
Named after the West Nile District of Uganda discovered in 1937.
Guinea Worm
Named by European explorers for the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600s.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Named after the mountain range spreading across western North America first recognized first in 1896 in Idaho.
Lyme Disease
Named after a large outbreak of the disease occurred in Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.
Ross River Fever
Named after a mosquito found to cause the disease in the Ross River of Queensland, Australia by the 1960s. The first major outbreak occurred in 1928.
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
Named after its 1940s discovery in Omsk, Russia.
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
Named in 1976 for the Ebola River in Zaire located in central Africa.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
Also known as “camel flu,” MERS was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and all cases are linked to those who traveled to the Middle Eastern peninsula.
Valley Fever
Valley Fever earned its nickname from a 1930s outbreak San Joaquin Valley of California, though its first case came from Argentina.
Marburg Virus Disease
Named after Marburg, Germany in 1967.
Norovirus
Named after Norwalk, Ohio after an outbreak in 1968.
Zika Fever
First discovered in 1947 and named after the Zika Forest in Uganda.
Japanese Encephalitis
Named after its first case in Japan in 1871.
German Measles
Named after the German doctors who first described it in the 18th century. The disease is also sometimes referred to as “Rubella.”
Spanish Flu
While the true origins of the Spanish Flu remain unknown, the disease earned its name after Spain began to report deaths from the flu in its newspapers.
Lassa Fever
Named after the being found in Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.
Legionnaire’s Disease
Named in 1976 following an outbreak of people contracting the lung infection after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/13/17-diseases-named-after-places-or-people/
I say “Chinese virus,” “he,” “she,” “binary,” “patriarchy,” “Trump,” and a load of other things that the left hates.
Chop Suey Fluey okay?
I'm stealing that.
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