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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @AJBlue98 and
HIV is still technically an ongoing global pandemic.
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Yeah that's why I said "most recent" in terms of when it appeared
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