the word-play right now over everything is pretty dumb.
it seems to have been squashed now, but there were active attempts to change the SARS-CoV-2 wiki to CoViD-19 because people can't tell the difference between virus and disease. so some people thought it might have been awesome if there was no distinction between the 2. science and history?.. pfft.
the "Chinese Flu" is racist, yet H2N2, commonly known as the "Asian Flu", is still fine.
the 1918 H1N1 "Spanish Flu" is also fine, although it didn't even start in Spain??
recent discoveries within years have also pointed the H1N1 influenza to originating from China. (the report is long and requires download, i'm just going to link its work being used in an article. you can find it in the H1N1 wiki)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health/to be fair, there is also recent counter-claim from the Chinese Medical Journal, that it can't be "proven" it was China shipping laborers around the world. the largest counter-claim i noticed being that, the laborers that had "records unearthed"(new evidence as mentioned in wiki) , weren't appearing to be as sick as people prior. (which is a non-sense counter-claim, as the original claim was that China had the virus early and developed a herd immunity before it was spread)
however... they admit in the introduction that there was evidence pointing to South China in starting even earlier global influenzas.
so... yikes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1726490115002610?via=ihubQuote
The onset of pandemic influenza has the capacity to cause the death of untold millions, as occurred at the end of the First World War in 1918.2, 3 Southern China and Southeast Asia have been suggested as the ecological epicenter of pandemic influenza due to the close relationship between ducks, pigs, and humans during rice cultivation.4, 5 There is some evidence that the 1890–92 pandemic, as well as subsequent influenza pandemics, arose in Southern China.6 The origin of the 1918 pandemic remains unknown despite many hypotheses, including that pandemic influenza was brought to Western Europe from Southeast Asia by soldiers or laborers recruited by Britain and France during the First World War. These Asian men began to arrive in Europe in 1916 and recruiting continued until the end of the war in 1918.1, 7 The evidence supporting the hypothesis of an Asian origin of the 1918 pandemic is that Chinese laborers unloading ships in Marseilles were some of the first persons known to have had an influenza-like illness, which caused little, if any, mortality early in 1918.
here's a Shapiro rant on communist government of China
This post was edited by tagged4nothing on Mar 18 2020 07:53pm