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>>codech+(OP)
It is, the narrative last year was that if you pointed at Wuhan, or Chinese Lab Leak, you were racist/bigoted.

>>rootsu+y8
That's not how I remember the narrative.

It was split in two.

1. Calling it "the china virus", as the former president was wont to do, was labelled racist/bigoted/nationalistic by those who did not simply agree with anything he said.

2. The claim that it originated in the Wuhan lab was viewed as unlikely, and there was (is) an alternative biological origin story which at the time seemed credible and more likely.

>>PaulDa+Eb
It's been practice for centuries to initially name it after where it was first originated. Spanish flu ring a bell? But yeah Trump's racist for saying China flu.

>>swader+Lg
The Spanish flu didn't originate in Spain -- its origins are disputed, but it was first observed in the US.

I'm surprised you didn't get this memo by now, but Spain gained that ignominy only by being the sole country to not apply censorship regarding the topic at the time ("Land of the Free" included).

It's utter nonsensical bullshit like this that made us collectively move away from naming diseases after countries.

>>cordel+Ri
We haven't moved away from that until about yesterday. UK variant, SA variant, Brazil variant. These were in the news you know?