[D66] “Wuhan Virus”?

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https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/chinese-virus-world-market/

> For weeks, American news services referred to the disease as the “Wuhan 
> virus.” Last month, the World Health Organization renamed the virus 
> “Covid-19” (Coronavirus disease of 2019) with the explicit goal of 
> minimizing the social stigma of a name that referred to a specific 
> place—and, by extension, a specific people. Not ones to pay heed to 
> international norms, conservative politicians in the US have continued 
> to insist on the phrase “Wuhan virus,” or “Chinese coronavirus,” in a 
> transparent effort to scapegoat and distract from their own catastrophic 
> mismanagement of the worst public health crisis in recent American 
> history. On Monday, a White House official reportedly described the 
> virus as the “Kung Flu.” The following day Donald Trump defended using 
> the term “Chinese virus,” explaining, “’cause it comes from China. It’s 
> not racist at all, no, not at all. It comes from China, that’s why. I 
> want to be accurate.” Less equivocal, Arkansas senator Tom Cotton paired 
> a tweet last week about the “Wuhan coronavirus” with a suggestion that 
> China would have to “pay” for what it had done to America.

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