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Yes, exactly, it's no more inappropriate than calling it the spanish flu, which health authorities consider innapropriate. It didn't originate in Spain but a hu
by vikramkr 7y ago
Yes, exactly, it's no more inappropriate than calling it the spanish flu, which health authorities consider innapropriate. It didn't originate in Spain but a hundred years later we still link it with Spain. The whole point is that future pandemics should not be given names that are tied to a name or a person so that we can explicitly avoid another case like the Spanish flu where we name it after a place hundreds of years later. The better name for the Spanish flu is the 1918 flu pandemic.
- allovernow 7y ago>which health authorities consider innapropriate This is politics, not medicine. The opinions of medical personnel are irrelevant. Moreover I'm not sure why you'd continue to trust these "official" medical sources when they've shown (CDC and WHO) to be incompetent and possibly corrupt. >It didn't originate in Spain but a hundred years later we still link it with Spain And it has no bearing on tourism to Spain or the treatment of Spanish people. So the policing is clearly unnecessary.