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@senghenydd Where do you think the name "Spanish Flu" comes from?

@Kwek00 The Spanish were the only country that provided accurate figures of the death toll the other countries like Britain France USA Germany had problems with the end of the first world war and didn't provide accurate figures of the sick and death caused by this Flu Pandemic.

@senghenydd But it wasnt used as a political tool, it was just a name that popped up because Spain remained neutral and was the only country that was more engaged in reporting about the matter.

@Kwek00 Yes that's correct with Covid-19 it was first reported in China we now know there was a case in France 27th December 2019 however I think China should be included in the name of this virus - PS I hope it goes that way I'll always think of it as China Covid-19 regardless what the rest of the world thinks.

@senghenydd The entire "China Virus" thing, was popularised by a world leader at the moment that he was receiving criticism for his inaction. After that, the same guy started deflecting all criticism towards China as if China wasn't only responsible for it's bad communication and authoritarian tendencies at the beginning of the outbreak but also for the internal affairs that the world leader was being criticised for. The name was pretty much a tool to rally his base and point towards someone outside their innercircle. Because self-criticism and self-evaluation doesn't work well with poppulism (neither left or right). Because in the poppulist mind, the people and it's leader are always moral and good and all the problems they face are just imported by those outside what they perceive as being "the people". That's their entire thing, that's how it works, and that's why corona/covid had to be named "China-Virus". You should try to figure out how manny "pet-names" are launched from the white house now a days via twitter accounts.