Ever heard of German Measles, Spanish Flu, Ebola Virus, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever or Lyme Disease. It is common practice to name diseases after people or places. Evidently Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has never heard of the practice or never before expressed objections. Well it appears that Nanny Nancy’s Chinese handlers don’t like the term Wuhan Virus and directed to raise a fuss, from News Turd:
Politico reports House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is taking heat for calling Covid-19 the “Chinese coronavirus” in a recent tweet — a reference that prompted the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to demand an apology Tuesday.
“Calling the 2019 novel coronavirus the ‘Chinese’ or ‘Wuhan’ coronavirus is as descriptive as calling it the ‘CPAC coronavirus’ — that is to say not descriptive at all,’’ CAPAC Chairwoman Rep. Judy Chu, the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress, said in a statement. “Worse, it’s harmful.’’
I don’t know about this theory of Representative Chu that having a disease share a name with a locality somehow causes harm to that locality. After all, Germany, Spain, the Rocky Mountains and Lyme, Connecticut all seem to be quite well.
Then what about Representative Chu describing the Wuflu with the name of the flagship Beer of the Rochester area’s biggest distilling comoany.
