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Originally Posted by Ducdesmo
What 3-5 diseases are you referring to in the past 20 years?
MERS - Middle East
Ebola - Africa
H1n1 Swine - US
SARS - Asia/China
The whole lets call it a China flu is such a political play from the current administration. Hate on Asian Americans has gone up significantly and words do matter. Are we going to start blaming every country on-wards when the next pandemic hits?
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A brief search brings up numerous smaller outbreaks of similar respiratory diseases than the current corona virus that originate in China. The unfortunately named “Asian Flu” in the 60’s, SARS, H7N9, and now COVID19 all began and spread in China. Many of the other outbreaks that are attributed to other countries have also gained momentum in China due to misdiagnoses under TCM etc.
And yes, I think 100% blame should be felt by the countries where these things originate because it is almost always caused by cultural practices which lead to animal-human transmission.
This hesitance to apply blame is funny. Is this a cultural “saving face” thing? Like seriously, if this shit started in Canada I’d be the first person to say yea, Canada fucked up, what are we doing to have this happen and how are we going to fix it going forward? And I think the govt. would also accept blame and work with others to correct the actions that led to it.
Yet China is standing in the middle of a G7 circle pointing fingers at others saying “No! It was you!!” Lol..