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It's cuts both ways. Some of the UK Politicians happily throwing around "China/Wuhan virus" got butt-hurt on Twitter when people called the B117 strain the "UK Variant."

We shouldn't be using that terminology for variants either. While I understand that people largely use location names for the sake of convenience, it really doesn't feel good to be a person from one of those locations.

>>mywitt+(OP)
Really? Why would it bother anyone there is a strain after your city/country/continent? Seriously I can't think of one reason it would bother me. It's so much easier to NOT take things personally. It's easier, and feels better.

>>mywitt+(OP)
In my opinion, location names are the easiest and most memorable way to refer to variants. The tradition is as old as the "Spanish flu"... which isn't from Spain at all.

>>muskox+Gk
They might be the easiest way to refer to variants but it does seem to incentivise countries/regions not disclosing/testing for new variants in the first place.

>>mywitt+(OP)
"Some...". Well, a few right wing idiots. Even the BBC calls it UK variant: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55659820

> it really doesn't feel good to be a person from one of those locations.

I am from one of these locations and could not care less.

>>mywitt+(OP)
Were they "butt-hurt" or were they feigning outrage to point out the hypocrisy of their opponents? I feel the later happens a lot on the internet (and some people even loose sight of the original intent).

It's like "censorship is OK if a private company does it". This makes a bit of sense if you're attacking a Libertarian, but for left wingers to earnestly think that private companies should have the right to shut down discussion they don't like is very odd.

Sometimes I worry that large portions of online debate has been overrun by people making claims they don't really believe because they're a bad slippery slope take on the views of the people they disagree with; and sometimes people have even started to buy the deliberately bad arguments their side has created.

>>wisty+iJ
They were probably posturing in both cases but the fact that their constituency went along with both is worth noticing.

>>mywitt+(OP)
So, on balance, it all evens out. Anti China racism, causality delusion to the detriment of the West, all looks to be in order. Carry on

Humans responding to a crisis by blaming each other. Most predictable thing ever. HN commentariat talking with such authority about things which they know nought and can't even see beyond their bias to engage their rational faculty about. Me included

Double most predictable thing ever. Hn is a microcosm.

Each of us all prisoners of our bias pretending we hold the truth of the world in the palms of our hands. a shining pearl of truth is actually a musty bolus we've wrenched up from the bowels of our own experience.

If only we were all a little less sure. A little less strident. But it's not gonna happen. This is who we are. This is where we are. We are the truth!

So let's get back to fighting. It'll be dark soon... Still a lot of fight needs gettin done before the day's out.

Don't let me spoil yer fun, y'all.

>>wisty+iJ
> Were they "butt-hurt" or were they feigning outrage to point out the hypocrisy of their opponents?

How should one tell the difference?

> think that private companies should have the right to shut down discussion they don't like

That's a perverse take on supporting 1st amendment rights. Do you believe that right-wingers in turn believe that private companies should be forced to serve users and content they don't want to?