One other way the "Chinese virus" thing is just PC culture for own-the-libs guys: it's a term that absolutely does not exist in normal vocabulary, regular people aren't using it in the slightest and you'd seem vaguely loopy saying it in a non-internet conversation.
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Replying to @tomgara
And everyone arguing with him instead of focusing on the current crisis at home it is going to make it an everyday term.
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Yeah, I think if he really sticks with it he'll win the battle, like he did with "fake news"
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Replying to @tomgara
Yep. Also remember the January/February wave of fairly liberal people who loudly expressed they were worried about the pandemic panic causing racism and lectured how people should worry about the flu instead? Now all three (the flu, the racism and the pandemic) are much worse.
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