IndyBeerman
Was a real life Beerman.....
His argument would carry a lot more weight if any scientists were calling this disease by a geographical name. They aren't. They are calling the disease Covid-19 (or COVID-19; I see both styles regularly), and the virus itself is called SARS-CoV-2.
It would be "way stupider" to call it the Milan Virus because it didn't come from Milan? He uses that line just moments after referencing the Spanish Flu, which originated in Kansas. His fact checkers must be part of the 16 million newly unemployed.
I agree that MERS and Lyme Disease and the others are fine because racist people didn't use those as an excuse to be discriminatory, which we are seeing during the current outbreak. (I know; it's all fake news, and Jussie Smollett is not just the norm but the only possible reality.)
I still haven't seen anyone give a reason why it would be better to call this "the Wuhan virus" or "the Chinese virus" than the name that is in common use by both the scientific community and journalists.
It is not racist to call it from where it originated. Your link to NBC News about over 650 Asian's being assaulted really is not about the virus, it's just an excuse that racists will use to cause harm to a race they dislike.
Now if it was being called Slurs that have been used to describe citizens of a country, that's racist. Wuhan, is not a racist word, it's the name of a city, don't try to make or turn it into it something it is not.
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that is awesome!
