Originally Posted by
sanicom3205
The economy is in free fall, we fall farther behind the curve in terms of preparedness everyday, and Italy is the hardest hit country of any other country on this planet (we might change that).
The virus effects everyone from every country the same. It is a world-wide pandemic, that is threatening everyones well being - both financially and physically.
If you chose to focus on where it originated, stigmatizing the Chinese rather than focus of fighting it, you have to ask yourself why that is being done. In this country, this tactic of constantly tying it china is used to deflect blame on another country rather than take responsibility for our own leaders lack of actions. "I don't take responsibility at all".
We also have a long history of doing this in this country... calling diseases like HIV the "gay plague", and delaying our response to it until millions were dead. I don't fall into that group, so whatever!
It's covid-19, it's coming after your jobs and your health. That's the focus. Focus on anything else or deflect attention elsewhere and you're a moron.
Diseases are typically named after where they originated from:
examples
Ebola - Ebola river area in Africa
MERS - Middle East...
West Nile Virus
Semliki Forest Virus
Calling COVID19 a China Virus is entirely accurate and valid. Wuhan Virus would be even more so. Trying to add levity to a nasty situation is a normal coping mechanism. People calling it racist simply do not know the real meaning of the word.
Did you order Chinese Food or Chinky Chow at all this past year?
lighten up.