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Doubt that's the only reason. Standing up for Amazon in such a way probably earned the most. Wuhan virus topic is interesting. A lot of people like the idea

by wolco 7y ago

Doubt that's the only reason. Standing up for Amazon in such a way probably earned the most. Wuhan virus topic is interesting. A lot of people like the idea of naming a virus or linking it to the first reported case. It make sense the new name they picked (covid2019) includes 2019 to indicate the year. Using facts like the year or place of first discovery I think makes sense. The racist angle only applies to some locations that are associated with nationalities. And only in nation states. The problem is more with nation states that we associate land with a single nationality. If the virus started in a multicultural society that angle wouldn't apply.

JumpCrisscross 7y ago
> the new name they picked (covid2019) SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. Covid-19 is the disease. The public-health rationale for not naming diseases after the first reported case location is it disincentivizes the early reporting of cases.
- wolco 7y ago
  That only works in a limited scope. If a country didn't report any cases and another country discovers it and finds people coming over with it they will trace it back. The country loses trust and gets labelled as untrustworthy. That's kinda what happened with China. They covered up / downplayed and played with rules around defining whether a test counts. The WHO helped surpress this. Now the WHO has lost respect (and financing). China has lost face.
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js4ever 7y ago
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! To clarify I don't work for Amazon nor related to them in any way. The situation just seemed unfair to me ...
shadowgovt 7y ago
History also demonstrates naming diseases by country is a very inaccurate way to name a disease. Spanish flu didn't start in Spain. There was a war on, and the countries that already had raging infections running through the trenches had suppressed news of those infections to the public as part of regular propaganda operations. Spain was a neutral party to WWI and so lacked the propaganda-driven media clampdown, and is therefore the first nation in the European world to have reported the disease. But the name has stuck, and to this day people assume Spainsh flu originated in Spain.

by wolco 7y ago

JumpCrisscross 7y ago

> the new name they picked (covid2019) SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. Covid-19 is the disease. The public-health rationale for not naming diseases after the first reported case location is it disincentivizes the early reporting of cases.

wolco 7y ago
That only works in a limited scope. If a country didn't report any cases and another country discovers it and finds people coming over with it they will trace it back. The country loses trust and gets labelled as untrustworthy. That's kinda what happened with China. They covered up / downplayed and played with rules around defining whether a test counts. The WHO helped surpress this. Now the WHO has lost respect (and financing). China has lost face.

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js4ever 7y ago

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! To clarify I don't work for Amazon nor related to them in any way. The situation just seemed unfair to me ...

shadowgovt 7y ago

History also demonstrates naming diseases by country is a very inaccurate way to name a disease. Spanish flu didn't start in Spain. There was a war on, and the countries that already had raging infections running through the trenches had suppressed news of those infections to the public as part of regular propaganda operations. Spain was a neutral party to WWI and so lacked the propaganda-driven media clampdown, and is therefore the first nation in the European world to have reported the disease. But the name has stuck, and to this day people assume Spainsh flu originated in Spain.