I don't see how it is any different then
MERS: Middle East respiratory syndrome
Spanish flu
Guinea Worm: really scary parasite named after country of Guinea
Ebola: Named after the Ebola river
I don't see how it is any different then
MERS: Middle East respiratory syndrome
Spanish flu
Guinea Worm: really scary parasite named after country of Guinea
Ebola: Named after the Ebola river
Livetorunfast wrote:
I don't see how it is any different then
MERS: Middle East respiratory syndrome
Spanish flu
Guinea Worm: really scary parasite named after country of Guinea
Ebola: Named after the Ebola river
Because it is properly called the CCPV (Chinese Communist Party Virus)
Livetorunfast wrote:
I don't see how it is any different then
MERS: Middle East respiratory syndrome
Spanish flu
Guinea Worm: really scary parasite named after country of Guinea
Ebola: Named after the Ebola river
These are all named after places, and for most its not even the scientific name.
Because Trump obviously is doing it for a reason, to play to his diminishing fan base.
SJWs gotta gripe about something.
My Vietnamese friend calls it the Kungflu.
So calling Covid19 the Chinese coronavirus is no different then call H1N1 the Spanish flu?
Who says it’s racist? I think there is some political gamesmanship going on when Trump refers to it as the Chinese virus, but it’s not racist. I think the Chinese are taking offense not because they think it’s racist but because they are worried about the legal ramifications that potentially exist due to their early denial and attempts to bury the news of the virus, which may have lead to it becoming a pandemic (which may not have occurred if they dealt with it more aggressively to begin with). A lot of people have lost money.
Coronavirus strains that could infect humans were developed at the University of North Carolina in 2015, using samples collected from bats in Wuhan, China. Coronavirus had never infected humans, and it has been around as long as bats have existed, which is millions of years longer than there have been humans.
So, why was a U.S. university bioengineering such a nasty virus? And how did something that left humans along for so long suddenly re-invent itself into something nasty?
Those scientists are now claiming there is "no evidence" that their lethal lab strain is related to COVID19. But, they have no way too prove that someone in a secret lab continued the research. They also cannot proved their strain did not mutate to the new version.
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate-34502
I’m not sure if it’s racist, but it’s causing racial discord here in the US. My sister in-law, who is of Chinese ancestry, says she is starting to get nasty looks simply because of her race. People are assuming she is a Covid-19 carrier because of her race. She has never set foot in China and is a US citizen. And BTW, she is a Trump supporter or at least was until this debacle.
Trump is once again provoking the racists in this country and there still appear to be a lot of them.
We should call it the Kung Flu
Coronavirus has been infecting Humans forever, just not this particular strain, that’s why they are studying it. Clearly this virus originated in China. Whether it came from bat soup, pangolins etc is unclear but I also don’t think calling it the ‘Chinese’ coronavirus is racist, just trying to shift blame.
Have you ever seen a wet market? I went to China once and saw one, grossed me out. It’s no surprise something could get transferred to another species at one of those things.
If it originated in Israel would Trump call it the "Jewish virus". No he would not because there would justifiably be outrage. Attempting to link this virus to a racial or ethnic group will just be a justification for some people to discriminate or even threaten Chinese Americans.
Yes, he is pissed at China, with some justification, but don't take it out on Americans of Chinese descent.
Spanish Flu didn't come from Spain you fucking moron.
I am Taiwanese-American, and all my Taiwanese friends are referring to it as the Wuhan virus.
These practices need to end wet markets in Asian China and other counties
coronaidiot wrote:
Because Trump obviously is doing it for a reason, to play to his diminishing fan base.
Now, they will all die because he didn't think we need a Pandemic task force in the White House and because of his false rhetoric.
Dook sux wrote:
Coronavirus has been infecting Humans forever, just not this particular strain, that’s why they are studying it. Clearly this virus originated in China. Whether it came from bat soup, pangolins etc is unclear but I also don’t think calling it the ‘Chinese’ coronavirus is racist, just trying to shift blame.
Have you ever seen a wet market? I went to China once and saw one, grossed me out. It’s no surprise something could get transferred to another species at one of those things.
You probably haven't traveled much. These kind of markets are pretty common in the developing world not just in China. If you don't have a fridge in every house, you need markets like this.
What is the purpose of calling it a Chinese virus when it’s already referred to as Covid-19 or, more generically, the Coronavirus. No public figure I’m aware of has referred to it as the Chinese virus until Trump did. And given his history, I don’t doubt for a minute that he started doing so to cause his racist base to blame China and Chinese people for the virus and the harm it causes rather than his negligent initial response to the virus that is making the effect of the virus worse than it should have been. And you know what else it does? It reinforces the idea that all Chinese people - even American citizens or people who just look Chinese - are more of a threat to be a carrier because it is - that’s right - the Chinese virus. Just call it Covid-19 or the Coronavirus FFS.
It's racist because it directs, for some quite intentionally, blame to a place or people.
That's hate mongering.
The rest of the world calls it the Coronavirus or Covid-19.
When some politicians and others now call it the "China virus" or the "Chinese virus" it's a deliberate attempt to assign blame to people who are essentially blameless.
The "China Virus" is straight out of the Trump play book... he never progressed passed schoolyard name calling.
Examples:
Do-Nothing Democrats
Sleepy Joe Biden
Crooked Hillary
Shifty Schiff
Mini Mike (Bloomberg)
Pocahontas (Warren)
Crazy Bernie (Sanders)
... it's endless