A whole bunch of Wolfeboro's storefronts feature real estate companies: I'd expect even more this season!
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Originally Posted by Sue Doe-Nym
That’s absurd. We have had SARS, MERS, Hong Kong flu, West Nile virus, and many others. I guess Legionaires Disease was also discriminatory. If the virus originated in China, what would you prefer to call it?
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Both the Black Plague and Spanish flu originated in China. (National Geographic).
COVID-19 is too easy to forget, is not its scientific name, and has already started mutating. Its vaccine will be ready by summer, 2021.
Even COVID-
18 gets a mention on this forum.
The countries of Taiwan, Vietnam, and city-states like Hong Kong--with "an agenda"--have named it
CCP-Flu. (
Communist
China
Party-Flu).
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Originally Posted by Garcia
An interesting sidebar. Do people realize the Spanish Flu in all likelihood did not originate in Spain?
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Noticing the use of ~ in ~Spain.
States' amended dates for reopening:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzanne.../#226493cb61b1
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Originally Posted by gravy boat
Wow -- did you just accuse everyone who uses "China Virus" or "Chinese Virus" as a racist? You didn't say the word "racist", but by accusing someone of having an "agenda" by referring to the virus by a commonly used nickname that includes the country of origin....sounds like you are accusing racism.
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There are more than 16 ethnicities in China. (Wikipedia).