Why shouldn't this virus be called the "Chinese virus"?

[Daal]

Check out this list, there a lot of viruses names after their place of origin
https://viralzone.expasy.org/678

Including a "New York virus", a "Seoul virus" and a "West Nile virus". Also, the 1918 Pandemic is widely called the "Spanish flu"

I'm not arguing in favor or against it, I just want to hear what people think

 

[Amun Ra]

Covid-19 = Chinese Originated Virus In December 2019

 

[El OchoCinco]

Check out this list, there a lot of viruses names after their place of origin
https://viralzone.expasy.org/678

Including a "New York virus", a "Seoul virus" and a "West Nile virus". Also, the 1918 Pandemic is widely called the "Spanish flu"

I'm not arguing in favor or against it, I just want to hear what people think

1918 Spanish Flu started or was first recognized in in Kansas and the origin is really not known that some believe it was linked to Europe after WWI but never linked to Spain so people should stop citing that without research...

 

[Overnight]

1918 Spanish Flu started or was first recognized in in Kansas and the origin is really not known that some believe it was linked to Europe after WWI but never linked to Spain so people should stop citing that without research...

People are worrying about the naming of this damned thing, yet there are still nagging issues on the table, which people forget about.

#1. BSE. Mad Cow disease. If that ever mutates to become aerosol/airborne in the world, we are all dead. Incurable, 100% fatal. Prions, bitches.

#2. Nuclear winter. If Trump doesn't stop with the stupid "Chinese Virus" nonsense, Xi may want to go there. After all, half his population is dying, which he will NOT admit, so may wish to take it a step further by nuking the hell out of US, which he claims is the source of the virus. We attacked them biologically it seems, according to the commies.

 

[CET]

It should be called the WuFlu, since it originated in Wuhan, China.

Call it what it is since China lied about it for weeks and made it much worse than it ever should have been. Even worse they are trying to blame it on us, so who cares it they don't like the name.

 

[d08]

It should be called the WuFlu, since it originated in Wuhan, China.

Call it what it is since China lied about it for weeks and made it much worse than it ever should have been. Even worse they are trying to blame it on us, so who cares it they don't like the name.

China is highly untrustworthy but let's be realistic, even US seems to be hiding cases. I've heard from people working in US hospitals that they have deaths that aren't registered in the official count, this was weeks ago when officially everything in US was perfectly okay.

 

[Wallet]

China is highly untrustworthy but let's be realistic, even US seems to be hiding cases. I've heard from people working in US hospitals that they have deaths that aren't registered in the official count, this was weeks ago when officially everything in US was perfectly okay.

Forget your propensity to correlate everything bad to coronavirus and “read” what you wrote.

They had deaths that weren’t registered in the official count? Duh? Granny succumbed to her diabetes and heart condition, she had a heart attack but damn it, why wasn’t she counted in the official pandemic figures?

Stop the fear mongering.

 

[Dazz]

here is your answer:
WHO announced “COVID-19” as the name of this new disease on 11 February 2020, following guidelines previously developed with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

ICTV announced “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” as the name of the new virus on 11 February 2020. This name was chosen because the virus is genetically related to the coronavirus responsible for the SARS outbreak of 2003. While related, the two viruses are different.

 

[FortuneTeller]

Because the Chinese in the USA vote Democrat and the Democrats get pissed off easily?

 

[lovethetrade]

It should be called the WuFlu, since it originated in Wuhan, China.

Call it what it is since China lied about it for weeks and made it much worse than it ever should have been. Even worse they are trying to blame it on us, so who cares it they don't like the name.

It’s called the ‘Chinese Virus’ because it originated there, they tried to conceal it and allowed it to become a global pandemic. It’s certainly reasonable to speculate whether this was intentional or not.