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Maybe they should call it "the Indian variant"? It's funny how people were completely fine calling it by countries (e.g. "UK variant") but when it came to Indi
by tomp 5y ago
Maybe they should call it "the Indian variant"?
It's funny how people were completely fine calling it by countries (e.g. "UK variant") but when it came to India (or China/Wuhan) - Discrimination! - it's OK do discriminate against the first world though.
(I agree though that eventually a new naming system was needed, countries cannot be reused twice...)
- chillwaves 5y agoKeep this comment in context of the anti Asian rhetoric also going around and the increase in racially motivated crimes against Asians. To ignore this context is extremely distorting.
- anaganisk 5y agoI don’t understand the whataboutism in these situations. > It was initially called the Indian Variant, due to being first detected there in April this year. But it was later renamed the April 02 Variant by the Scottish Government to avoid stigma in associating the variant with people from India. There is a reason why they did that, fortunately third world countries didn’t attack people from UK. But first world people can’t understand that variants name has nothing to do with the uninfected people from that country. I heard dozens of cases where Asians were attacked.
- tomp 5y ago> fortunately third world countries didn’t attack people from UK They didn't need to, because their governments acted responsibly and locked out the people from the UK. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/uk-travel-ban-coronavirus-variant/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/uk-travel-ban-coronav... India, Argentina, Brazil, China, Mauritius, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, ...
- anaganisk 5y agoAh, so you conveniently just ignored the existing people who live in those countries, due to various reasons? And u think the Asians who got attacked in the first world countries were Tourists?
- tomp 5y agoYou misunderstood my point. Or rather I didn't communicate it properly. Renaming the virus variants won't solve the root problem. Nor will racist attacks, of course, but that's just people's desperation showing, because their governments refused to implement good solutions that could solve the root problem.
- anaganisk 5y agoI see your point now, but yeah when people are desperate, desperate measures are needed. We have Anti-Vaxers, Moon landing deniers. So sometimes some decisions may sound stupid, but to some degree they might help.
- tomp 5y agoMaybe, but I don’t think the track record shows that. IMO the more likely consequence is that the populace continues to lose the respect and trust for their governments. This started with banning plastic straws (now you get a paper straw wrapped in plastic!) and it’s accelerated since the start of the pandemic.
- anaganisk 5y agoTo be fair, govts are very slow. Changes take a lot of time. What one party agrees is not met eye to eye by other. Also take an example of Cookie banners. Govt wants to do something, corps come up with BS to evade. Now to make it change a step further, it takes a lot of time and is constantly brought down by lobbies etc. At the end of the day, common man suffers. But its not just govt, at every step there is irresponsibility, greed etc.