The British variant of Corona

@shavixmir said
There’s a British, a South African and possibly a Brazilian (shaved?) version of Covid-19 sweeping many countries.

Are these terms equally racist as “The Chinese virus”?

🤣 shaved Brazilian version.

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Your reality is as warped as that of a trump supporter.
Seriously. There maybe one or two people on this forum with an anti-Chinese bias, but the vast majority don’t.

The vast majority, if you say: The Chinese Virus” will not think you’re blaming China. Just like a vast majority don’t blame Spain for the Spanish flu or Mexico for the Mexican flu.

And, to top it off, not once in my life have I ever heard anyone refer to the Chinese as the cause of the black death.
Everyone says: Rats from boats.
Some will say: fleas from rats from boats.
And if you ask them: where did these boats come from?
They’ll answer: Africa? Asia?
And if you ask: who is to blame for the
Black death?
Everyone answers: rats (or fleas from rats) from boats.

Nobody has ever said (as far as I know): “Oh, the bubonic plague... the Chinese caused that.”
Not one. Zero.

However, if trump has said it, I won’t be surprised. But then again, he’s as mad as a hatter.

@shavixmir said
Your reality is as warped as that of a trump supporter.
Seriously. There maybe one or two people on this forum with an anti-Chinese bias, but the vast majority don’t.

The vast majority, if you say: The Chinese Virus” will not think you’re blaming China. Just like a vast majority don’t blame Spain for the Spanish flu or Mexico for the Mexican flu.

And, to top it off, ...[text shortened]... ro.

However, if trump has said it, I won’t be surprised. But then again, he’s as mad as a hatter.

Good point.
Maybe one day people will say the coronavirus came from a weird practice people did back in the day when they took living animals to 'wet markets' and then killed them to eat them.

@yo-its-me said
Good point.
Maybe one day people will say the coronavirus came from a weird practice people did back in the day when they took living animals to 'wet markets' and then killed them to eat them.

Oh, now you’re just going full-whack vegetarian on us!!

🤣

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What do you mean?

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That’s because it started in china’s filthy wet markets, or less likely in the Wuhan lab where a blunder released it. Lots of viruses seem to originate from China.

They mutate elsewhere as they travel the globe causing death and destruction.

@yo-its-me said
What do you mean?

Duchess64 gets upset with China taking accountability and always, without fail, pulls the “racist” card in a hand-flapping histrionic defence of personal outrage. She cannot see the difference between accountability and racism.

@shavixmir said
There’s a British, a South African and possibly a Brazilian (shaved?) version of Covid-19 sweeping many countries.

Are these terms equally racist as “The Chinese virus”?

Thumbs up for the “shaved Brazilian”

You sexist pig!

@shavixmir said
There’s a British, a South African and possibly a Brazilian (shaved?) version of Covid-19 sweeping many countries.

Are these terms equally racist as “The Chinese virus”?

It’s even worse than that, them Brits have decided to call it the ‘Kent Variant’. Racist pigs.
I think we need to remember that just because a country or region detects the variant first does not mean that it mutated into existence there.
I would say the term the China Virus is inherently more racist because its gratuitous and would leave someone hearing the term confused as to what was being referred to in a scientific sense. The Covid 19 or corona virus is a much better descriptor.

There is nothing racist about the term 'British variant". Again, it only designates a birthplace of the variant of the Sars-Cov-2 virus. Nothing more, nothing less. And if you look deeper into it than that, I suggest you are a racist looking for trouble.

@earl-of-trumps said
There is nothing racist about the term 'British variant". Again, it only designates a birthplace of the variant of the Sars-Cov-2 virus. Nothing more, nothing less. And if you look deeper into it than that, I suggest you are a racist looking for trouble.

I suggest you practise some reading comprehension.

Ot stop drinking.

You seem to be arguing against points not being made.

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Okay. What do you think about calling it the British variant, then?
Is that racist as well?

@shavixmir said
There’s a British, a South African and possibly a Brazilian (shaved?) version of Covid-19 sweeping many countries.

Are these terms equally racist as “The Chinese virus”?

There you go.