Quote (fender @ Mar 18 2021 06:30pm)
don't be stupid. please. you're completely missing the point. i agree there's nothing inherently wrong about naming a disease after the region it likely came from. however, it's not like "china / chinese virus / flu" was a name that the disease got "naturally". it's not like people were calling it that anyway. no, it was commonly known as "corona" or "covid(-19)" before conservatives tried to
actively re-brand it, predictably leading to increased anti-asian sentiments, which is where bigotry comes in. it was
a deliberate decision, an extra effort they made to stoke mistrust and division, as famously illustrated by this photo taken of a trump press conference, where the speech writer used the commonly used term, and trump (or stephen miller) "corrected" it to make it more divisive:
https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/comp-1584648431.png"Wuhan Flu" and "China Virus" go back to the very beginning. You are confusing what came later (the term beginning a right/left divisive issue) with its origins.
There is no reason to freak out over the fact that the virus came from China, or that Chinese government incompetence likely led to its spread. In fact, the latter is a very good reason why we should care.