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So why the timing to rename it? Why now? I am asking that because you did not address it in my original comment, so I am going to harp on it again. Why now?

• ceejayoz 7y ago
  Why not? It was a global pandemic that didn't even start in Spain. We happen to be paying a lot of attention to it because it's the last really global pandemic of similar severity/spread to the COVID-19 outbreak. The increased attention to this little bit of history has us asking whether we should correct the inaccuracy in its name. Even the CDC calls it the "1918 flu pandemic". https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htm https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoratio... Not as a reaction to COVID-19, either: "Page last reviewed: March 21, 2018"
  • at_a_remove 7y ago
    That isn't what I was asking. I asked, why now. What about this instance in time has prompted this? Also, I was talking about Wikipedia. Please do not move the goalposts on me. I guess the Socratic method isn't going to work here. Bluntly put, some folks are full Ministry-of-Truthing away at Wikipedia to help justify their attempts at erasure of the "Wuhan flu," China connection. That's why it is happening now. "See, we don't call it the 'Spanish flu,' so why should we call it ..." It's terribly skeezy.
    • ceejayoz 7y ago
      You’re reading a lot of malice into “let’s call it what the CDC called it two years before all this”. The timeline doesn’t work.