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I think one of the things is that Trump is gone. He was using anti-China rhetoric even for valid questions and enabling media to brand everything pointing to Ch
by yumraj 5y ago
I think one of the things is that Trump is gone. He was using anti-China rhetoric even for valid questions and enabling media to brand everything pointing to China as racist. For example, I still don't know why is it OK to refer to secondary variants with the origin country, such as UK, South Africa, India, Brazil variants, but not to refer to the original as China-Variants or simply Chinese-Flu or Wuhan-Flu. Remember Spanish-Flu is perfectly acceptable even though it did not even originate in Spain - go figure).
To be clear, I have no problem using country-origin variant names, as long as we use the same standard for Covid-19. This is very similar to GOP trying to whitewash the Jan-6th thing, that now we're talking about UK, South Africa, India, Brazil variants, but the original is just COVID-19, no mention of China. This may seem unimportant now as everyone knows it came from China, but in 20-30 years will we remember, No!!
Even recently, when the ex-CDC Director Redfield talked about China lab-origin, CNN went to great lengths to question it and make a note that no evidence was presented. Even Fauci was quoted saying it's just an opinion: https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-03-26-21/h_d2fe59849d042d0c63b7a9c4d4021a0d https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic...
- tfcata 5y agoIt's ok to call the variants with the country names because everyone are certain. The origin is not certain so you can't call it with any country names yet. Your logic is flawed.