It's not "the China-virus", it's the Sixth Chinese Pandemic

opinion | 5/3/2020 | BroJoeK

[BroJoeK]

President Trump might reconsider calling Coronavirus "The Chinese Virus", because it's just the latest Chinese viral pandemic -- by my count, the sixth in the past 103 years.
This means China has been, in effect, a virus producing factory whose pandemics killed millions worldwide, and who remains a biological threat globally.

Here is my list of the Six Chinese Viral Pandemics, two of which are in dispute, both from the H1N1 virus, the first based on a Chinese report of deaths in November 1917:

Number	First Year	Name	Origin	Virus	Died	Remarks
1	1917	"Spanish Flu"	northern China	H1N1	around 35 million	disputed origins
2	1957	"Asian Flu"	Guizhou, China	H2N2	around 3 million
3	1968	"Hong Kong Flu"	Hong Kong<-- China	H3N2	around 3 million
4	2002	SARS-Covid-1	Guangdong, China	SARS-COV-1	around 1,000
5	2009	"Swine Flu"	Mexico<-- China	H1N1	around 300,000	disputed origins
6	2019	"Coronavirus"	Whu Han, China	SARS-COV-2	around 250,000++

[GOPJ]

The Chinese are doing this in several stages... but it’s nice to see you’re thinking outside the box. The key is to think like a sociopath - then it all starts falling into place.