The naming of a virus or disease after a location — including a lily-white location like Lyme, Connecticut (Lyme Disease) — is just how it’s done and has been done for a long time.
All of a sudden it's now Racist, even though the very same media declaring it Racist is the very same media that first called it the “Chinese Virus” or the “Wuhan Virus” over and over back in January.
Examples:
Ø “Japan and Thailand Confirm New Cases of
Chinese Coronavirus,” The New York Times, 1/15/20
Ø “The CDC and Homeland Security begin
screening for Chinese Coronavirus at three major US airports as outbreak
spreads in Asia,” CNBC, 1/17/20
Ø “Vaccine for new Chinese Coronavirus in the
works,” CNN, 1/20/20
Ø “First U.S. case of potentially deadly
Chinese Coronavirus confirmed in Washington state,” Washington Post, 1/21/20
Ø “Chinese Coronavirus outbreak has reached
U.S. shores, CDC says,” Los Angeles Times, 1/21/20
Ø “The First Case Of The Chinese Coronavirus
Has Hit The US, CDC Reports,” Buzzfeed, 1/21/20
Ø “First case of Chinese Coronavirus confirmed
in Washington state,” NBC’s Today Show, 1/24/20
Ø “Chinese Coronavirus infections, death toll
soar as fifth case is confirmed in U.S.,” Washington Post, 1/26/20
Ø “Japan confirms case of new Chinese virus,
spread is ‘concerning,'” Reuters, 1/15/20
Ø “How the Chinese virus outbreak impacts Lunar
New Year travel,” National Geographic, 1/24/20
Ø “China Coronavirus ‘spreads before symptoms
show,'” BBC, 1/26/20
Ø “Over a thousand ‘likely’ infected by Wuhan
virus in China: Study,” Al Jazeera, 1/18/20
Ø “Stop the Wuhan virus,” Nature
Magazine editorial, 1/21/20)
Ø “China confirms Wuhan virus can be spread by
humans,” CNN, 1/22/20
Ø “First U.S. Case Reported of Deadly Wuhan
Virus,” Wall Street Journal, 1/22/20
Ø “Here are the symptoms of the deadly Wuhan Coronavirus
and when you should be worried,” Business Insider, 1/22/20
Ø “Something Far Deadlier Than The Wuhan Virus
Lurks Near You,” Kaiser
Health News, 1/24/20
Ø “With Wuhan virus genetic code in hand,
scientists begin work on a vaccine,” Reuters, 1/24/20
Ø “The Wuhan Virus: How to Stay Safe,” Foreign Policy, 1/25/20
Ø “Something Far Deadlier Than The Wuhan Virus
Lurks Near You,” USA Today, 1/29/20
Ø “10-Year-Old Boy Raises Fears Wuhan Virus
Could Spread Undetected,” Bloomberg, 1/29/20
Ø “Your Questions About Wuhan Coronavirus,
Answered, National Public Radio, 1/30/20
Ø “Will the Wuhan virus become a
pandemic?” The Economist, 1/30/20
To sum this up, the media floods these words and terms into the American Lexicon, and then sanctimoniously turns around and attacks those who repeat their words by calling them Racist.
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You have now entered Fella’s Oh Yea Department. This Department is used when someone contradicts me or does not believe me and I get my dander (whatever that is) up and I say, “Oh yea! I’ll show you!”...
Here are 17 other diseases named after populations or
places:
Ø West Nile Virus...Named after the West Nile District of Uganda discovered in 1937.
Ø Guinea
Worm...Named by European explorers
for the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600s.
Ø Rocky
Mountain Spotted Fever...Named
after the mountain range spreading across western North America first
recognized first in 1896 in Idaho.
Ø Lyme
Disease...Named after a large outbreak
of the disease occurred in Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.
Ø Ross
River Fever...Named after a
mosquito found to cause the disease in the Ross River of Queensland, Australia
by the 1960s. The first major outbreak occurred in 1928.
Ø Omsk
Hemorrhagic Fever...Named after its
1940s discovery in Omsk, Russia.
Ø Ebola
Hemorrhagic Fever...Named in 1976
for the Ebola River in Zaire located in central Africa.
Ø Middle
East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)...Also
known as “camel flu,” MERS was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and
all cases are linked to those who traveled to the Middle Eastern peninsula.
Ø Valley
Fever...Valley Fever earned its
nickname from a 1930s outbreak San Joaquin Valley of California, though its
first case came from Argentina.
Ø Marburg
Virus Disease...Named after
Marburg, Germany in 1967.
Ø Norovirus...Named after Norwalk, Ohio after an
outbreak in 1968.
Ø Zika
Fever...First discovered in 1947
and named after the Zika Forest in Uganda.
Ø Japanese
Encephalitis...Named after its
first case in Japan in 1871.
Ø German
Measles...Named after the German
doctors who first described it in the 18th century. The disease is also
sometimes referred to as “Rubella.”
Ø Spanish
Flu...While the true origins of the
Spanish Flu remain unknown, the disease earned its name after Spain began
to report deaths from the flu in its newspapers.
Ø Lassa
Fever...Named after the being found
in Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.
Ø Legionnaire’s
Disease...Named in 1976 following
an outbreak of people contracting the lung infection after attending an
American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
The English Language is always evolving. Fella thinks we are not far from the day when Merriam-Webster will have this new entry for Media...The English Language is always evolving. Fella thinks we are not far from the day when Merriam-Webster will have this new entry for Media...
me·dia | \ ˈmē-dē-ə \
plural medias
Definition
of media
a singular or plural in construction : MASS MEDIA
b medias plural : members of the mass media
c
foolishness
Would I kid u?
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