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Searching Twitter for examples of people decrying "Chinese virus" can come across as confirmation bias. It's also not an accurate measure of how many people tru
by v37p 6y ago
Searching Twitter for examples of people decrying "Chinese virus" can come across as confirmation bias. It's also not an accurate measure of how many people truly disapprove of the name. The point is that the argument for or against it is frivolous. As for speaking in codes, you could just call the virus by its actual name, SARS-CoV-2 and the variant G614[0].
[0]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr2032888 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr2032888
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoI was just observing the immediate objections to all the other geographic names but then that apparently doesn’t matter when naming “variants.”