Your two arguments are rationalizations to cover up for the obvious fact that Donald Trump was playing to a base that likes to cast blame for bad things that happen to them.
It’s a grade school diplomacy argument.
China lied. Yes…they did.
We still had plenty of lead time to mount a more effective response and we botched it.
But if we “talk tough” and get people a target for their Two Minutes Hate, maybe we can gloss over that fact.
It’s the ONLY reason for using the term at this time.
Come on- let’s not dance around the truth of the matter, shall we?
Norms like MERS being middle eastern respriatory syndrome? or the 1918 flu that originated in spain being spanish flu? that actually is the convention not this new crap that china, boot lickers of china and the chinese dominated WHO, jack ass media and liberal trump haters are now pushing. Well screw them all. it’s the chinese virus. the wuhan virus. period.<-----period punctuated with a period for the slow)