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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Modern liberal political correctness, and wokeness in action, geography be damned.
Or the Marburg Virus. Or Ebola.
Or Legionnaire’s Disease.
Remember how Nancy Pelosi was afraid people would not want to go to Chinatown if we call it the China virus?
Why is it that we are allowed to call historic disease outbreaks such as the Spanish flu or the Hong Kong flu by those names, but somehow Liberals are triggered if we would call covid-19 the China virus or the Wuhan virus?
Fauxcy is his own Race?
“China virus” is connected with racist bias only because they said so.
This is just so much bullshit wokeism
Anyone remember “Isil”?
Brad Bushman is a stinking communist agitator...
With communists, historical revision begins the very first day...
It was called Wuhan pneumonia 武漢肺炎 in China and all over the Chinese speaking world for months.
Until the manufactured campaign to make it “racist” to say where it was from.
Which the chicoms also started to propagate.
Pointing out facts is racism only to racists.
They usually don’t like to admit it came from Wuhan because next people might start to notice who was funding their research.
Remember “St. Louis Encephalitis?”
“Perfessers” of “Communications.”
Pretty much explains it.
The truth is the truth. It isn’t racist, or sexist or any other form of “ist”.
It’s just the truth.
Great observation!!
Why was there NOT this hysteria over the Hong Kong flu OMG these people are insane!!
Not true only because President Trump said so
Yes I remember Obama used to call ISIS by the acronym ISIL.
It was odd that Obama insisted on using those initials rather than ISIS . But he was stubborn about that.
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