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Post by darkpast on Mar 21, 2020 21:43:08 GMT
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Post by scabab on Mar 21, 2020 22:07:59 GMT
Not sure why this is suddenly a thing. Viruses have often been named from the country they originate from.
There was an Indian Swine Flu, Madagascar Plague, Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Bolivian Dengue Fever and dozens of other examples.
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Post by darkpast on Mar 21, 2020 22:24:22 GMT
Not sure why this is suddenly a thing. Viruses have often been named from the country they originate from. There was an Indian Swine Flu, Madagascar Plague, Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Bolivian Dengue Fever and dozens of other examples. Cause Trump has been using it a lot lately as a distraction for his poor response to the outbreak, the liberals in America see Trump as racist.
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Post by Vassaggo on Mar 21, 2020 22:30:00 GMT
Not sure why this is suddenly a thing. Viruses have often been named from the country they originate from. There was an Indian Swine Flu, Madagascar Plague, Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Bolivian Dengue Fever and dozens of other examples. I believe its the sudden change from Corona or Covid19 to Chinese Virus by pundits and politicians. The first 2 became the nomenclature then all of a sudden they started calling it a Foreign Virus first then Chinese Virus. So what was the reason for the change? Calling it a Foreign Virus is kind of telling. It's Us/Them, The Other type propaganda. I know a few asian americans and they haven't been beaten or anything, but they have been screamed at on the streets, minor name calling that kind of thing. And personally it's to vague to be useful in my opinion. Covid19 is probably the name that gives the most information and should be used COrona Virus Disease 2019. Covid19 easy to say and remember.
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Post by Honolulu on Mar 21, 2020 22:30:26 GMT
Who cares?
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 21, 2020 22:33:40 GMT
BUT IS IS "The Chinese Virus" due to the FACT that it ORIGINATED there and they're the ones RESPONSIBLE for it! The ones who got the World in this MESS.
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Post by darkpast on Mar 21, 2020 22:36:10 GMT
BUT IS IS "The Chinese Virus" due to the FACT that it ORIGINATED there and they're the ones RESPONSIBLE for it! The ones who got the World in this MESS.
Term is too vague , stopping assigning blame. Maybe it came from God.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 21, 2020 22:51:52 GMT
BUT IS IS "The Chinese Virus" due to the FACT that it ORIGINATED there and they're the ones RESPONSIBLE for it! The ones who got the World in this MESS.
Term is too vague , stopping assigning blame. Maybe it came from God.
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Post by scabab on Mar 21, 2020 23:48:51 GMT
Covid19 is probably the name that gives the most information and should be used COrona Virus Disease 2019. Covid19 easy to say and remember. Well there was also that H1N1 virus about a decade ago but people always called it the Swine Flu as a nickname. I don't know anyone whose called it the Chinese virus but it's a virus and it came from China. There was the Spanish Flu just the same.
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Post by Vassaggo on Mar 22, 2020 0:10:23 GMT
Covid19 is probably the name that gives the most information and should be used COrona Virus Disease 2019. Covid19 easy to say and remember. Well there was also that H1N1 virus about a decade ago but people always called it the Swine Flu as a nickname. I don't know anyone whose called it the Chinese virus but it's a virus and it came from China. There was the Spanish Flu just the same. Yeah I understand and the Spanish Flu didn't come from Spain. They were neutral in WW1 and had no restriction on their newspapers where as those in the war had black outs on their papers. So it looked like Spain was where the outbreak happened. They don't know exactly where the Flu of 1918 came from they theorize either China or US. This is why naming the virus for the people/place as it's nickname can be misleading. Now there is some need in the scientific name to add the location of first outbreak. Sometimes they add original outbreak happened to differentiate between virus strains. They did it for ebola. They didn't do it for this virus although I wouldn't be upset or mind if they tact that on to the scientific name. It's official name is SARS-Cov-2 it would be fine to call it SARS-Cov-Wuhan and retroactively change the 2002-04 to SARS-Cov-Foshan. The problem I have is pundits that changed to Chinese Virus after Corona or Covid19 already started to be the nick name. Now you can't absolutely know the intent of that, but calling it Foreign first pretty much lets you know. It's just propaganda.
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Post by Skaathar on Mar 22, 2020 6:34:24 GMT
Had it been called the Chinese virus (or Chinese superflu) from the beginning then I wouldn't mind. But we already have two names for it, either Coronavirus or COVID19. The only reason for someone to call it the Chinese virus now is due to some ulterior motive.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 22, 2020 6:53:11 GMT
Trump calls it the Chinese virus so people remember where it came from. It may be racist but it is accurate. Those that say he shouldn't call it that are wanting suppression of the source. It makes as much sense as having a fire in your home caused by a faulty wiring system but because you don't want to offend the electrician you call it "the house fire."
The "house fire" does nothing to help you understand the cause or take actions in the future to avoid it. THIS is the problem the globalists are having-here they are, wanting people to be in a panic about it--lose their jobs, shut down their lives--if people start connecting it with China they may do something like--want more filtering of China-Western contact to avoid anything similar in the future? The media would rather people ignore the wiring system. Just sleep in the doghouse until further notice.
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Post by Skaathar on Mar 22, 2020 8:08:43 GMT
Trump calls it the Chinese virus so people remember where it came from. It may be racist but it is accurate. Those that say he shouldn't call it that are wanting suppression of the source. It makes as much sense as having a fire in your home caused by a faulty wiring system but because you don't want to offend the electrician you call it "the house fire." The "house fire" does nothing to help you understand the cause or take actions in the future to avoid it. THIS is the problem the globalists are having-here they are, wanting people to be in a panic about it--lose their jobs, shut down their lives--if people start connecting it with China they may do something like--want more filtering of China-Western contact to avoid anything similar in the future? The media would rather people ignore the wiring system. Just sleep in the doghouse until further notice. You call a house fire a house fire. You can explain its cause but you usually don't call it a "faulty wiring systems fire". I certainly don't think anyone would call it an "Electrician fire".
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 22, 2020 12:12:37 GMT
You call a house fire a house fire. You can explain its cause but you usually don't call it a "faulty wiring systems fire". I certainly don't think anyone would call it an "Electrician fire". Electrical Fire
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Post by ThatGuy on Mar 22, 2020 15:49:03 GMT
Not sure why this is suddenly a thing. Viruses have often been named from the country they originate from. There was an Indian Swine Flu, Madagascar Plague, Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Bolivian Dengue Fever and dozens of other examples. Well, shouldn't it be Chinese Covid virus? What will happen if there is another virus out of China? How can we tell them apart?
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Post by ThatGuy on Mar 22, 2020 15:57:52 GMT
Trump calls it the Chinese virus so people remember where it came from. It may be racist but it is accurate. Those that say he shouldn't call it that are wanting suppression of the source. It makes as much sense as having a fire in your home caused by a faulty wiring system but because you don't want to offend the electrician you call it "the house fire." The "house fire" does nothing to help you understand the cause or take actions in the future to avoid it. THIS is the problem the globalists are having-here they are, wanting people to be in a panic about it--lose their jobs, shut down their lives--if people start connecting it with China they may do something like--want more filtering of China-Western contact to avoid anything similar in the future? The media would rather people ignore the wiring system. Just sleep in the doghouse until further notice. So if I caught a cold from you, I should call it the Primemovermithrax Pejorative cold? Or should I just say I caught a cold? I mean, everyone knows where the covid-19 virus comes from, but it has an official name. Being the President, shouldn't he try drilling the official name into people's head? He's actually giving people a target of hate by naming it after people. "You see this thing that's killing people? It's their fault not mine... Even though I was downplaying it and telling you all not to worry. It's too late, oh well, blame them."
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Post by Skaathar on Mar 22, 2020 15:58:25 GMT
You call a house fire a house fire. You can explain its cause but you usually don't call it a "faulty wiring systems fire". I certainly don't think anyone would call it an "Electrician fire". Electrical Fire Yeah but you don't call it Electrician fire.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 22, 2020 17:01:08 GMT
So if I caught a cold from you, I should call it the Primemovermithrax Pejorative cold? Or should I just say I caught a cold? I mean, everyone knows where the covid-19 virus comes from, but it has an official name. It depends. If I go around giving people colds regularly, then calling it the Primemovermithrax Pejorative cold would probably have some public service value. Besides, he had trouble with that covfefe word, and Covid-19 is pretty close-maybe he wants to avoid the same mistake. Unless he was being prophetic at the time.
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 22, 2020 17:01:42 GMT
Yeah but you don't call it Electrician fire. And Trump didn't call it the Chinaman Virus!
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Post by Skaathar on Mar 22, 2020 22:37:41 GMT
Yeah but you don't call it Electrician fire. And Trump didn't call it the Chinaman Virus! No, he called it the Chinese virus. Chinese referring to the people, just like electrician refers to a person. The correct comparison to an "Electrical fire" is to call it the "corona virus".
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