The name of this virus with respect to the naming convention mentioned above is literally "A/California/7/2009(H1N1)pdm", which you'll note has two specific places in it, one abbreviated and one not.
For the Northern Hemisphere this flu season they recommend strains like A/Brisbane/02/2018(H1N1), A/Kansas/14/2017(H3N2), B/Colorado/06/2017, and B/Phuket/3073/2013.
Those are virus strain identifier names, not disease common names. IN that case the disease is called influenza.
The WHO advice applies to the common usage:
As these best practices only apply to disease names for common usage, they also do not affect the work of existing international authoritative bodies responsible for scientific taxonomy and nomenclature of microorganisms.
Ebola would be one exception, as it is a river. But Spanish flu was not so named (if that's even a formal name) because of anything Spanish in origin; it was named that way because Spain was the only country reporting on it due to suppression of journalists around the world, including in the U.S., due to WWI. People got all their news on the flu from Spain, so it came to be called the Spanish flu.
Totally, and also it is very important. In some Turkish-speaking forums I follow, some people already blame the "Chinese way of living" for such a disaster. This disassociation has been even too late, I'd say.
Covid-19 virus originated in Wuhan "wet market", where freshly-slaughtered wild meat is preferred. It's a perfect setting to facilitate virus movement from animal to animal and from animal to human.
Even if it is so, Chinese way of living is not just that market and people are just being racist. If there is a specific thing wrong with that environment (I'm not the one to tell), it needs to be dealt as a single case, not by talking down the way of living of billions.
Just in one single section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus#Classification we find Norwalk virus (its original namesake), Southampton virus, Bristol virus, Lordsdale virus, Toronto virus, Mexico virus, Hawaii virus, Snow Mountain virus, US95/96-US strain, and Farmington Hills virus.
None of these are common-usage disease names, which the WHO advice applies to:
As these best practices only apply to disease names for common usage, they also do not affect the work of existing international authoritative bodies responsible for scientific taxonomy and nomenclature of microorganisms.
The name coronavirus doesn't refer to China at all. And it had to get a better name, because "coronavirus" properly refers to a whole class of viruses than include both the common cold and COVID-19.
