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greedo on May 27, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The media's lab leak fiasco

Pretty simple to refer to it as COVID, no? West Nile Virus was named in 1937, so hard to really say it's equivalent. Ebola is named after a river, I doubt it gets offended by the association. MERS is widely acknowledged as a mistake in naming by the WHO.

tomjen3 on May 28, 2021 | [–]

Things that ryme are easier to remember, so wuhan virus would be the most accurate and easiest to remember.

908B64B197 on May 28, 2021 | [–]

But it did originate in China, no?

And the Chinese government did hide critical data from the WHO and international partners to save face, no?

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