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"Chinese" virus?
What kind of racist are you?
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Updates on the Chinese virus:
Are you lobbying to be put on ignore or what?
https://www.history.com/news/why-was-it-called-the-spanish-fluWhile 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.
More recently, experts have proposed a third hypothesis: The Spanish flu originated somewhere in northern China in late 1917 and swiftly moved to western Europe with the 140,000 Chinese laborers the French and British governments recruited to perform manual labor to free up troops for wartime duty.
The major UK troop staging and hospital camp in Étaples in France has been theorized by researchers as being at the center of the Spanish flu. The research was published in 1999 by a British team, led by virologist John Oxford.[16] In late 1917, military pathologists reported the onset of a new disease with high mortality that they later recognized as the flu. The overcrowded camp and hospital was an ideal site for the spreading of a respiratory virus. The hospital treated thousands of victims of chemical attacks, and other casualties of war, and 100,000 soldiers passed through the camp every day. It also was home to a piggery, and poultry was regularly brought in for food supplies from surrounding villages. Oxford and his team postulated that a significant precursor virus, harbored in birds, mutated and then migrated to pigs kept near the front.[17][18]
A report published in 2016 in the Journal of the Chinese Medical Association found evidence that the 1918 virus had been circulating in the European armies for months and possibly years before the 1918 pandemic.[19]
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In 1993, Claude Hannoun, the leading expert on the 1918 flu for the Pasteur Institute, asserted the former virus was likely to have come from China. It then mutated in the United States near Boston and from there spread to Brest, France, Europe's battlefields, Europe, and the world with Allied soldiers and sailors as the main disseminators.[28] He considered several other hypotheses of origin, such as Spain, Kansas and Brest, as being possible, but not likely. Political scientist Andrew Price-Smith published data from the Austrian archives suggesting the influenza had earlier origins, beginning in Austria in early 1917.[29]
In 2014, historian Mark Humphries argued that the mobilization of 96,000 Chinese laborers to work behind the British and French lines might have been the source of the pandemic. Humphries, of the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, based his conclusions on newly unearthed records. He found archival evidence that a respiratory illness that struck northern China in November 1917 was identified a year later by Chinese health officials as identical to the Spanish flu.[30][31]
A report published in 2016 in the Journal of the Chinese Medical Association found no evidence that the 1918 virus was imported to Europe via Chinese and Southeast Asian soldiers and workers and instead found evidence of its circulation in Europe before the pandemic.[19]
Ah, anything but the truth for you trumpers, ain't it?
Sorry to ruin your fun racist thread with racism spouted by the OP.
I'm not a Trumper. I just appear here in order to defend him anytime he’s criticized even if he deserves it.
Should we now start calling The Spanish Flu the American Virus? After all that's where it came from, Texas to be more specific. It killed more people than the First world war so perhaps Texans should wear that badge with pride?
Sure, why not. It's not like anyone but a Texan snowflake would care, anyway. And in the Chihuahuan Desert section of the State, where snowflakes, both meteorologically and emotionally, are literally rare, no fucks would be given at all.
No doubt immensely more advantageous to your politically-correct efforts to blame some place else to flood your river of progressive tears upon.
Should we now start calling The Spanish Flu the American Virus? After all that's where it came from, Texas to be more specific. It killed more people than the First world war so perhaps Texans should wear that badge with pride?
There is no reliable source out there claiming that it started in Texas.
Pay attention to what I say.
I don’t understand the reason to call it Chinese instead of COVID-19 or coronavirus. Isn’t that it upsets and/or hurts others a good enough reason not to?
Pay attention to what I say.
Updates on the Chinese virus:
No. Never. Ever.
This is a country that has 1 million Uyghurs in concentration camps.
A country that steals intellectual property.
A country that manipulates its currency.
A country that not only lies about its economy but
did everything it could to suppress the information about the coronavirus
including making whistleblowers simply disappear.
This means the rest of the world was late to react and prepare,
the virus was introduced into their countries almost by stealth
almost as if it was by design...
No. They bought this. They need to own it.
I'm not a Trumper.
Everyone who does not agree with you does not do so
because they are vested in Trump.
You could have fooled me. You defend him at every turn, but, whatever helps you sleep at night
Mostly brown and black people. Prison industrial complex.