--- NO discussion whether it was or wasn't called a hoax
--- NO discussion about whether it should or should not be called Chinese virus. You will not be allowed to use "Chinese virus" in this topic though (it derails topics and unless you're an idiot looking to do it on purpose you will refrain from baiting other users.)
See here, CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html
See here, White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/03.16.20_coronavirus-guidance_8.5x11_315PM.pdf
--- DON'T feed idiotic posts. I.e, "this is just a fabrication by the media". If you reply to that, mocking it, you are more to blame than the idiot. Just because someone writes something dumb. You don't get a free pass to mock and bait back. Those who have to read some of the resulting exchanges can feel their brain cells dying.
If you use the idiotic posts as an opportunity to enlighten them and the few that still think the same way, then that's welcomed. But generally --- ignore the dumb posts please.
--- DON'T use this topic to vent about internal politics. Don't re-hash the same debates that you have had over the last few years. If it isn't fresh and relevant to the current situation, just don't post.
If you need to vent, find some other avenue.
--- The dumb mano-a-mano battles over futile things have no place in this topic.
This has happened and will happen more often:
--- Suspensions
--- Entire non productive and derailing discussions moved out to sanitize the topic
Useful Links about the Virus:
Notes:
Spoiler:
