This is EXACTLY the whole problem the WHO was trying to stop when they said to stop using the place-of-origin nameshttps://twitter.com/KCStar/status/1240801773671133184 …
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There is history to name diseases after people and places. The name ends up being what the general people call it. WHO didn't like H1N1 being called Bird Flu, but that is what it is called. That is reality.
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And it's a bad thing, which leads to dangerously misguided actions, and we can fight against it
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When *a* virus — singular — is in our community, then yes, I agree. However when viruses — plural — repeatedly come into our community from the same source, we have a duty — without being an ass about it — to address the source. (Some people have a hard time not being an ass.)
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"Repeatedly" as in what, SARS in 2003, which was a mostly contained regional epidemic and not a pandemic? The most recent actual pandemic was "swine flu" (H1N1) in 2009, which started in Mexico
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Also in 1918 we didn't have the internet to spread "K*** flu!" at lightning speeds across the world to every drooling bigot on earth, though what we DID have was even more sanction against innocent foreigners and hardly anyone that cared if they got harassed and beat up.
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