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[–]RuckFeddit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

There's not going to be a single future incident without racism and minority rights thrown in. Here's a fun experiment: google any noun you can think of followed by the word racism. Google just the word racism and see how many results you get.

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's almost like its perception management to divide perception.

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

"Umbrella Racism" yields no amusing results. On the other hand, it might make a wonderful fake Wikipedia entry.

[–]RuckFeddit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why have you got an umbrella in Saudi Arabia?

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Actually, ladies actually do carry them. In Spanish paragua or better for here, parasol.

[–]RuckFeddit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Every day you confuse me more and more.

[–]Nemacolin 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, sorry.

Umbrella, for water. "Para agua" for water.

Paradol, for the sun. "Para sol" for sun.

[–]rightykiller 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

the MERS virus is called that because its the "middle east respitory syndrome" how is THAT not racist?

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

As you said, MERS is named after the Middle East.

Lyme Disease is named for the town of Old Lyme Connecticut.

Bamberger–Marie disease is not named for the city, but for a doctor named Bamberger. So there.

Guinea Worm is named for old Guinea.

West Nile Virus needs no explaination.

German Measles really ought not to be called that, but it is.

Ross River Fever is named for a river in New South Wales

Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever is named after (you guessed it) Omsk

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is named after a river.

Marburg Virus Disease is very nasty. Named for a town in East Germany.

La Crosse Encephalitis, La Crosse Wisconsin

St. Louis Encephalitis, Saint Louis Missouri

Japanese Encephalitis is named for Japan

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Valley Fever comes from the San Joachim Valley (It is also called California Fever)

Junin Virus is named for the city of Junín, Argentina. Its proper name is Argentinian mammarenavirus

Zika Virus is named for the forest in central Africa.

Norovirus is named for Norwalk Ohio (not Connecticut)

Hong Kong Flu is named for Hong Kong

Spanish Flu ought to be called something else, but what can you do?

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Spanish Flu ought to be called something else, but what can you do?

Prior to the 1920's, diseases were assumed to come from " the lesser races" so "Spanish Flu" was deliberate.

About a decade later the medical community began blaming animals for transmission of animal viruses, after the Rockefellers co-opted and corrupted medicine.

They're back to their old shenanigans.

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Do you have some sort of list of things that set you off? Just so we might avoid them in conversation.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I'm not set off bro.

I agree with the majority of what you posted, and I agree the Spanish flu should be named something else.

I figured I'd toss in a bit of historical context because there's a history of naming illnesses after scapegoats.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The Spanish Flu wasn't even contagious as they did studies injected it into the blood of hundreds of healthy subjects and used mucus as well, none of them got it.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

In reality it wasn't "a flu". It was disease transmitted through vaccinations.

Contagion followed vaccination program. Rural areas weren't affected, because there weren't enough people to justify the travel.

Medieval plagues affected communities at random; large, and small.

The actual history has been censored.

I'll see what I can find for sources.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

[–]friendly_gardener 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Didn't need 3 polls to know the masses are asses.

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Did you see Bill Mayer's comments on this? "Can't we even have a pandemic without getting offended?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEfDwc2G2_8

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

bill maher is a mason who normalizes pedophilia

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Of course he is.

[–]useless_aether[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Gross