Blame seems to be on the mind of many folks today when discussing the Covid-19 virus. If you are left leaning you see the opportunity to blame Trump for not doing enough. Maybe, but he’s not the one that started this panic. The origin has been clearly shown to be Wuhan China. Most of the media until recently called it a China virus or Wuhan Virus. But now backed by the autocrats in China, anyone actually naming the virus for its location is called “racist”. Hmmm. Does the left ever get tired of using the race card? Whether you’re an Obama Community Disorganizer Socialist, a straight on Bolshevik Marxist like Bernie, or just the People’s Republic of China – when all else fails – you are a racist if they don’t like the narrative that puts them in a bad light. For the record here are a list of viruses – all named after their location of origin:
Norovirus
Named after Norwalk, Ohio after an outbreak in 1968.
Zika Fever
First discovered in 1947 and named after the Zika Forest in
Uganda.
Japanese Encephalitis
Named after its first case in Japan in 1871.
German Measles
Named after the German doctors who first described it in the
18th century. The disease is also sometimes referred to as “Rubella.”
Spanish Flu
While the true origins of the Spanish Flu remain unknown, the
disease earned its name after Spain began to report deaths from the flu in its
newspapers.
Lassa Fever
Named after the being found in Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.
Legionnaire’s Disease
Named in 1976 following an outbreak of people contracting the
lung infection after attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
Ross River Fever
Named after a mosquito found to cause the disease in the Ross
River of Queensland, Australia by the 1960s. The first major outbreak occurred
in 1928.
Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
Named after its 1940s discovery in Omsk, Russia.
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
Named in 1976 for the Ebola River in Zaire located in central
Africa.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
Also known as “camel flu,” MERS was first reported in Saudi
Arabia in 2012 and all cases are linked to those who traveled to the Middle
Eastern peninsula.
Valley Fever
Valley Fever earned its nickname from a 1930s outbreak San
Joaquin Valley of California, though its first case came from Argentina.
Marburg Virus Disease
Named after Marburg, Germany in 1967.
West Nile Virus
Named after the West Nile District of Uganda discovered in 1937.
Guinea Worm
Named by European explorers for the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 1600s.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Named after the mountain range spreading across western North America first recognized first in 1896 in Idaho.
Lyme Disease
Named after a large outbreak of the disease occurred in Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut in the 1970s.
Blame – if you’re a conspiracy theorist you blame the Chicom’s Bio-Lab in Wuhan – or if you buy the bat theory – the Chinese eat pets, snakes, Koala bears, bats and this is the cause of the initial virus – and anyway you look at it, the world wide spread in BOTH cases is due to the secrecy of the autocratic Chinese Govt. And instead of cooperating the Chicoms are telling their people that the American army caused it? Yes, these are very evil people running the Chinese Govt. Not that different from Mao who had no problem starving 80,000,000 yes, 80 million Chinese to DEATH to push his Great Leap Forward. The Marxists are always moving things forward – and people die by the millions. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot – all Marxists moving us Forward into the abyss.