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   > Who said that MERS is not a racist term? Of course it is.   
      
   But that is the official designation.   
      
   >The latest coronavirus that plays a role in the ongoing Trump pandemic has the   
   >official designation SARS-CoV-2. Why do you want to call it the Chinese or   
   >Wuhan Coronavirus? What other reason besides racism are there? Just because we   
   >made mistakes in the past doesn't mean we have to repeat them forever.   
      
   MERS is not old enough to be that distant in the past.  My reasoning has   
   nothing to do with racism.  It has everything to do with "we need to   
   remember where this started because the Chinese government did not learn   
   their lesson the last time and, if the World does not keep on them about   
   their practices, they will continue and this will happen again and again..."   
      
   Here are some good links, including one where a professor of Chinese descent   
   is interviewed, and another that includes interviews with actual Chinese   
   people.  There seems to be little doubt that they could have prevented this   
   if they'd not gone right back to doing what they were doing in 2003 when   
   that outbreak happend.  There is also no doubt there was a Chinese government   
   cover up.  They persecuted the whistleblower doctor, destroyed initial testing   
   evidence, and still today are trying to deflect the blame for their actions   
   onto others:   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-LL9vK_Uh4   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/coronavirus-wuhan-doctor-ai-fen-   
   speaks-out-against-authorities   
      
   https://www.whistleblowersblog.org/2020/03/articles/featured-story/report-   
   suggests-if-china-had-listened-to-whistleblower-95-of-coronavirus-infections   
   could-have-been-prevented/   
      
   None of those make it sound like the Chinese government has learned their   
   lesson and won't go right back to doing what they were doing before.   
      
   That last one is a real good one.  Note that it is not called "if Donald   
   Trump was smarter, 95% of infections could have been prevented."  All the   
   people who are sick or dead are so because the CHINESE GOVERNMENT covered   
   it up.  All this disruption that all of us are having to go through is because   
   the CHINESE GOVERNMENT covered it up. If they weren't worried about saving   
   face or keeping an industry going that allows rich, influential Chinese to   
   eat exotic and endangered animals, NONE of this would be happening.   
      
   Calling it a "Trump pandemic" like you do is much more misleading than "Wuhan   
   coronavirus."  Again, 95% OF INFECTIONS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED if China   
   had not swept it under the rug for a month or more. For their actions, they   
   deserve to have it called "Chinese Government Cover-Up Coronoavirus."   
      
   If we all forget where this started, the Chinese government will just keep   
   allowing these practices, and in a few years we will all be on lockdown   
   again, assuming it does not kill us.   
      
   I think you need to educate yourself about what caused this, and how it was   
   covered up, before crying "racism" at something that triggers you.  Unless,   
   of course, you are intentially acting as a mouthpiece for the Chinese   
   government or enjoy doing so by accident.  In that case I guess you can   
   explain to me how the Chinese people interviewed are racist against their   
   own people, or something equally as silly.   
      
   Mike   
      
      
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