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It irks me that we call it the South African variant or the UK variant, but it was sooooo off limits to say China virus.
by breitling 5y ago
It irks me that we call it the South African variant or the UK variant, but it was sooooo off limits to say China virus.
- WalterGR 5y agoNone of those names are WHO best practices. https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-practices-for-naming-new-human-infectious-diseases https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-pra... What’s your personal preference?
- CodeShmode 5y agoI get what you're saying but there is a fair bit of context and intent difference between the terms. "China virus" was pretty highly implied to convey blame and fault, but the variant terms are not similarly charged. Case in point would be that acts of racism or violence are not being incited against races from the variant countries.