# Racism and "Wuhan virus" - only because Wuhan is a fairly well known large city?

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> [@Chingon](#):
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> How does it help Americans to call it a foreign virus? Do certain medicines only work on domestic viruses?

How does it help to blame a buffoon like Trump more than Xi and the CCP when it was policy for the Chinese government to hide and deny the truth? Maybe calling it the CCP virus would assign blame where it rightly belongs without tarring an entire nation?

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