What do you think MERS stands for?
Congratulations, you thought of a third example. How many hundreds of examples would you like of disease names that don’t include a country of origin?
Perhaps you could Google it?
Hong Kong flu, Asian flu, how about Legionnaires disease, you know why it got its name?
It’s okay I’m here all night.
Mumps, tuberculosis, whooping cough, hepatitis, rabies, meningitis.
You’ll never guess how I compiled a list in such a short time .
None of which were flu pandemics, try again.
Until 2015 it was common the name flu outbreaks for where they originated. In 2015 however the who decided that was racist and xenophobic so it might hurt people’s feelings.
Feelings became more important than accuracy.
I think SARS and H1N1 are accepted nomenclature. Most people, including most epidemiologists, were calling this coronavirus, which became COVID-19 pretty quickly.
They are now because of “feelings”.
I think more likely they call it that
because that’s what everyone else is calling it. But by all means, provide links to substantiate this origin theory of yours.
That’s the most hilarious self-own I’ve read on here in a while. I had to go through a quarter of the timeline to get to Hong Kong flu, then better than halfway through to find Asian flu, the only other example you cited. There were many references to communicable disease names that I listed, which didn’t include a country of origin.
Your pontifications and self-flagellation aside, we’re discussing how and why flu outbreaks were named in history
and that is because the Chinese have the current secretary by the testicles. check out just how much chinese business interests and monetary interests are in the poor dude’s country. their capital is called the city that china built.
No argument there, they own who right now
If you choose to ignore a government that lied, covered up, made large, avoidable mistakes, that are costing the world very dearly right now…that’s your choice but in this life, that’s not how I roll. First…I identify the problem. Then examine how best to fix it…and then do it. China is a problem.
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China lies so far 27198 dead 590 3291 total confirmed cases.
We’ve got at least a month ago so If numbers whole true we’re looking at well over 5 million total victims, with at least a hundred fifty to two hundred thousand dead boring some intervention.
It’s okay though give China a pass and blame Trump…
It’s absolutely unbelievable observing the media shape so many peoples’ reality. It’s sad too.
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Calling the virus Covid does none of those things.
China is ONE of the problems.
We still had time to not allow this to be a disaster and we didn’t act.
The person to whom you responded has it exactly right. This isn’t an attempt at “transparency”.
It’s providing someone to hate.
Exactly…so many in authority have TDS and fought him every inch of the way.
I honestly don’t understand how you can maintain such an Unreality Bubble even now.
You honestly believe our sluggish response was because people were “fighting Donald Trump every step of the way”?
That he was a lone crusader trying to rally us against the virus and no one was listening?
Seriously?
PS Waiting to see if the predictable response is coming in 3…2…1…
Why did trump just praise Xi and China?
