We could name the most annoying variant Karen, the one from Canada could be Gord…
Scientists still do not know for sure where the Spanish Flu originated, though theories point to France, China, Britain, or the United States, where the first known case was reported at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, Kansas, on March 11, 1918.
Did folks in Naples resent that?
There was bad hygiene in some areas of the USA at the time, polio, hookworms and TB come to mind. I’m sure there was much more.
I have zero idea. I’m not sure why you posted your first question, but I assume you’ve been informed now that naming viruses after where they (didn’t) originate from is a bad idea, right? Missing from your list of possible places was Spain anyway, so it was really a poor name for it.
It seems silly to resent “Spanish flu” when the Spanish named it after Naples.
Since you’re a plant, you may not realize this, but people are like that.
How can you say that? Now that Spain’s hypocrisy has been laid bare, we have no choice but to start calling covid-19 the “China virus”.
Haha!
The British media is calling it “B 1 1 7” now.
I suppose they are probably sensitive about it, but also you don’t go around calling things “American Baked Beans” and “American Lettuce” and “American Bread” when they are just the Beans and Lettuce and Bread that you get in the shops.