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For the same reason we were influenced to used COVID-19 as a name rather the presumed geographical place of origin as is traditionally done.
by TeeMassive 5y ago
For the same reason we were influenced to used COVID-19 as a name rather the presumed geographical place of origin as is traditionally done.
- ceejayoz 5y agoThere are lots of “traditionally done” things that turn out not to be great. There are some good examples of the issues with naming viruses geographically in this article. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/us/disease-outbreaks-coronavirus-naming-trnd/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/28/us/disease-outbreaks-coronavi...
- TeeMassive 5y agoYour article says absolutely nothing about the geographical naming causing the prejudice against minorities and it doesn't make sense that the place of origin, which is of public notoriety, would either be forgotten or is the cause of the prejudice anyway.