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Originally Posted by jfman
Nobody fusses over the Spanish flu because there’s little point renaming something 100 years later. Trump is actively calling this something that it isn’t to dog whistle it his supporters, and while there is more than one coronavirus unless you are in a specific scientific community there’s a 100% chance you mean the one killing tens of thousands of people right now.
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Not a care for those like my Sister in Law & her daughter who are Chinese, but have not set foot in China for a decade or more.
Words matter.
Coronavirus covers things like the common cold, yet Corona Beer sales dropped drastically.