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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Replying to @arthur_affect @nsarwark
Yeah, ignorance is ignorance. Doesn't change the fact where it came from. How many people are now learning that the Spanish flu didn't start in Spain? But other illnesses are after places of origin. Educate. Don't try to Orwell words with New Speak.
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Replying to @AmaniSchneider1 @nsarwark
It DOESN'T MATTER whether the 1918 flu came from Spain or the US, once the virus is in your own community the effect on you is the same The idea that the country of origin of a virus is valuable information was always wrong and born of our need to scapegoat and discriminate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nsarwark
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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