THREE Polls Show Majority Of Americans Agree With Trump Calling Coronavirus ‘Chinese’

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[–]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)

Spanish flu vaccine relationship