Trader_Joe wrote:What I've heard about the name of the Spanish was flu, was that Spain was one of the few countries to openly report their cases and not cover it up, or their media to be blacked out like so many countries in the War.As the pandemic reached epic proportions in the fall of 1918, it became commonly known as the “Spanish Flu” or the “Spanish Lady” in the United States and Europe. Many assumed this was because the sickness had originated on the Iberian Peninsula, but the nickname was actually the result of a widespread misunderstanding. Spain was one of only a few major European countries to remain neutral during World War I. Unlike in the Allied and Central Powers nations, where wartime censors suppressed news of the flu to avoid affecting morale, the Spanish media was free to report on it in gory detail. News of the sickness first made headlines in Madrid in late-May 1918, and coverage only increased after the Spanish King Alfonso XIII came down with a nasty case a week later. Since nations undergoing a media blackout could only read in depth accounts from Spanish news sources, they naturally assumed that the country was the pandemic’s ground zero. The Spanish, meanwhile, believed the virus had spread to them from France, so they took to calling it the “French Flu.”
While it’s unlikely that the “Spanish Flu” originated in Spain, scientists are still unsure of its source. France, China and Britain have all been suggested as the potential birthplace of the virus, as has the United States, where the first known case was reported at a military base in Kansas on March 11, 1918. Researchers have also conducted extensive studies on the remains of victims of the pandemic, but they have yet to discover why the strain that ravaged the world in 1918 was so lethal.
https://www.history.com/news/why-was-it-called-the-spanish-flu
Meanwhile it doesn't matter where it came from.
It's here and it impacts everyone, regardless of ethnicity or nationality.
Trump is doing no favor to anyone with what he is doing, but his defense is.. "well, they did it first, saying we sent it"
I love how 2 wrongs make a right in his childish mind. Meanwhile, why so defensive? Almost makes us look like we're hiding something.
THIS.
The whole point is why. if you know it impacts even a few people why bother calling it that? Does it really make things better by referring to it as Chinese vs Covid-19? As you said, its childish and also a little ignorant.
