The last coronavirus was called MERS which stands for middle eastern respiratory syndrome, so I don't get why ppl are being so PC about this being called China virus, it's not even being called the Chinese virus :lol

Chinese bat eating death disease, spread the word

tons of videos of forced quarantined in Wuhan. Glad the CCP is doing something

Spanish Flu was named over a hundred years ago when people were dumb and racist as fuck. In fact it started in the battlefields of WWI in France and it was named "Spanish Flu" because the Spanish media was not censored at the time, leading people to believe there were a ton of cases in Spain.

MERS was named after a geographical area. It would be much worse if it was called "Chinese Virus" but perhaps it's due to the negative connotations associated with China *blank* being used as a slur. Sorta how "Chinaman" is racist but not "Irishman" or "Frenchman"

First of all, it's written Chinese, no need to qualify it as Mandarin as other dialect speakers can read it as well. Second, why would you care? The ad obviously isn't for you or me. I can't read Chinese either and it doesn't piss me off. In fact I'm glad for it, one less ad invading my headspace as far as I'm concerned.

No reason to keep repeating this misinformation:
https://www.health.com/condition/inf...virus-bat-soup


It is pretty apparent though that this outbreak has been racialized much more than other recent ones including SARS(China), MERS (Saudi, Korea), H1N1(Mexico). Perhaps because of the size and drastic measures being taken have made it a huge news story. Again, calling it "China VIrus" is not racist in itself, but the intent is there to perhaps rile up some of the more unenlightened idiots out there.

But here's some bedtime reading for ya'll:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoph...virus_outbreak

Plane ticket to Beijing in March got cancel from Air Canada. Got an email that just said they cancel my ticket. However, no updates on their website. Want to call about the refund and stuff been on hold since 11am......
Heard from the in laws Beijing and Shanghai is starting limited trains going in and out of the city same with flight. Shit is getting real.

Shit like this is almost always going to originate in places like China etc. Where people are literally living on top of one another in such densely populated cities and neighborhoods

Think about the amount of people you interact with on a daily basis. I think I probably work in a workplace with more exposure to people than your typical workplace and I MIGHT be around 30 people on any given day

Now I’ve never been to China or Wuhan but I can imagine you may run into hundreds if not thousands of people just walking a few blocks. The risk for contact is crazy

I only know of Spanish Flea, the song, by Herb Alpert.............

oh, and Spanish Fly, ftmfw!

https://www.healthline.com/health/spanish-fly-drug

Meanwhile, these things never seem to originate from other densely-populated areas like Japan ...

this thread is now about alaskan king crabs in vancouver

i miss the $15/lbs days...apparently they just limit the amount that can be caught and many go to china now...hence no more king crab season locally

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/me...g-crab-leg.jpg

Agree with everything you said, and yeah that idiot eating the bat was mostly perfect timing, but the "COVID-19" genome is 96% similar to a bat coronavirus, so it almost definitely came from a bat. It would have had to go through another species first though, and right now they are suspecting it was the pangolin, since they found a coronavirus on them that is 99% similar to "COVID-19"

Calling it "China Virus" is absolutely racist - it was never called that to begin with, but racists are using the name now. In case anyone was curious, the Hong Kong subreddit is absolutely ruined now, filled with anti-China racists from all over the world, mostly Australia and USA. They insist on calling it things like "China Virus" and "WARS" and the sub is filled with racist propaganda. Their live thread is still useful, but the subreddit itself is a lost cause.

What does the ‘wars’ stand for. Wuhan something respiratory syndrome?

Also civicblues: simmer down. I’m not attacking you

That's the idea. They love the that they could use "war". They promoted violence constantly during the protests

Cultural differences?

Also I’m not sure but I would think personal wealth in Japan, and especially in the most densely populated centres is far greater

Entirely possible that a public toilet here in Japan is cleaner than some peoples toilets at home :accepted:
The word clean, is taken to next level. A country of OCD

Even the monkeys there are clean and polite.

sorry if I came across as belligerent, that wasn't my intent.

so they're leaving at least 2 weeks of food/meds before welding the door?

That was one of my questions. What if a fire breaks out. Everyone’s done for :(

Exactly my point, China is a geographic location, middle eastern is less geographic than it is ethnic, but they're both geographic, I'd agree with all the PC outcry if these were called the arab or chinese respiratory syndrome

The racism as you put it, is coming from us Chinese not in China, we're probably the most outspoken "eww not again mainlanders" "eww mainlanders be fucked up" "stay away from mainlanders" white ppl are just like "not again China, sigh, always Doin crazy shit"
It seems more like white ppl are shocked by the craziness, while other chinese/asians are getting nasty

Nope they get food deliveries etc from a pulley up to their apartment, only if they have cash though, otherwise good luck

There is always wecaht pay or just use the red pocket function. In laws are saying going to the supermarket you have to get your temperature taken like 7 times before you get to the supermarket. Is annoying as hell lol. Oh and they have police driving around if they see anyone wandering around they ask you to go back home
Unless you are working, going to work, supermarket they want you to stay indoor.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto...thering-steam/

Well that's not cool...only a matter of time. Hope everyone is prepped!

I guess they'll die if they don't have any money for food and cant work.

Just to race bait, what percentage of the people who've gotten the coronavorus are of non Chinese desent? Could it still be racist to call it the China virus if ONLY Chinese DNA could contract it? Hypothetically speaking.

Just making conversation. No ill intent