Remember, the ones making it a bigger thing that it is, are the ones that did the link search bingo early to try convince others that it is a big thing. (Really if there was a virus originating in a place in the US the name it originated would be a thing until officially named)
The reality remains that the rules on naming diseases were changed in 2015 in a WHO meet and the US signed to those rules too.
Yeah, I wondered this too when it first came out and looked up the alphabet to make sure I was not imagining things. Then I saw they had probably skipped letters like Xi. I am not saying they should or shouldn’t have done that, but it says something. They did not show the same sensitivity when it came to naming hurricanes a few years back, but I only caused moderate damage. 
As for using place names, they cause resentment without much purpose. I think they should use fictional ones or persons. Getting the Godzilla virus or Hobbiton disease wouldn’t make it worth it but would offer a little levity.
Like Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, or St. Louis Encephalitis (not all viruses, but same difference). Yes, if an outbreak happened in the US it would initially be named after the city or region it was first seen in…just like it has in the past. These were just the ones I could think of.
At any rate, I think this dead horse has been beaten enough.
Reading the Jan 2020 article we find it variously described as “Wuhan virus”, “the pneumonia in Wuhan”, “the coronavirus in Wuhan” and just “the virus”. IOW it’s exactly the thing I said, which is that they are speaking descriptively not claiming any of these descriptions as a name.
The point is simply this: in the past we might refer to a new disease by the region it starts in initially, then we would choose an official name that might also include the region. This caused stigma and offence in many cases.
So since 2015 the procedure is that, sure, we might obviously refer to the region at first for convenience. Then we pick a name that doesn’t include the region.
For some reason you seem to blame this rule change on Chinese time-travellers, and also seem to have a problem with it, but I am unclear what it is you think is the problem.
And Legionnaire’s Disease is offensive to Legionnaires.
And Lou Gehrig’s Disease is offensive to Lou Gehrigs?
Why would you doubt this? This was an issue when they were talking about the South Africa and Indian variant, which is why they went to Greek letters in the first place, or at least part of the reason as I remember.
Well I’m sure he wasn’t happy with it.