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Old 04-22-2020, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by JackRussell View Post
None of these answers are available thru Google for TV.

You say "scientists are not calling it the Wuhan Flu out of respect."
The convention for naming outbreaks is to name them after the place they started. Zika, West Nile, Lyme, and Ebola are all places. The World Health Organization changed the name Wuhan to Covid-19 after pressure from China and the media has helped them spread the name. Scientists know the outbreak started in China because there are forensic analyses that show its travel over time. For example, scientists have determined that syphillis started in native North American tribes and then traveled to Europe - not the other way around (The Columbian hypothesis).

Who are we respecting if we call it Covid? The people who poisoned us?
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I don't agree with your opinion.
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Nor do I.
Nor I. I also lose respect for people who push anti-ethnicity agenda and conspiracy theories.

It's a shame that threads including responses to people you've blocked are still visible unless you block every single person who responds to that one person you blocked. Makes blocking that one person a lesson in futility.