> Also, if you call covid the "china virus", you're definitely endangering asian americans. As it stands, there's plenty of stories of asian americans getting h

> Also, if you call covid the "china virus", you're definitely endangering asian americans. As it stands, there's plenty of stories of asian americans getting harassed because of covid prejudices. I disagree with this framing. Calling it the China virus is simply being factual, just like naming all the recent variants of COVID for their location is (like “the UK variant”). It would have been an important way to highlight that the ultimate responsibility for this fiasco lies with the Chinese government, who delayed the world’s reaction by 4-6 weeks while they strategized, acquired PPE, and so forth. What China should have done is shutdown all their ports in mid December. Instead they exported the virus to the rest of the world while they knew better. This strategy, whether malicious or not, resulted in other economies being decimated instead of just china’s being impacted. Let’s not forget the virus entered the US through Seattle, a major hub for travelers from China. The only reason to value the proximal issues of how the Trump administration handled their response above the root issues with the Chinese government, is to leverage the pandemic as a useful crisis to undermine Trump. And that is exactly why the political left rejected naming the virus for its location, because it was ultimately a significant part of their 2020 election strategy. > But is trying to find a root cause "political theatre"? Finding the root cause is important. I’m just saying it is theater now a year later, when the Chinese government has had all this time to wipe clean any traces of the virus accidentally leaking from this lab, which was specifically studying bats and coronaviruses. We still don’t know if this was the source of course - but it seems clearly like an important possibility to verify. With permission for a visit being denied until early this month they have removed any legitimacy an actual search for a root cause might have had.