Subj : FidoGazette Vol 14 no 12
To   : OLI
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Mar 23 2020 17:39:00

> 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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