Re: Is it also time to rename
I think I read somewhere that the first outbreak of the Spanish flu was on a military base in Kansas or something, so it's kind of a misnomer (were they even in the war?) but I guess that might be considered historical? Plus the Spanish are white so it's not quite the same. Still, something like "Wuhan coronavirus" certainly sounds better than Covid-19 (and with every passing year the "19" starts to sound sillier), but apparently there's a lot of resentment against the Chinese in this country, which I didn't appreciate whatsoever until Donald Trump came along (I guess one effect of his presidency/existence is that he drags this stuff out into the open, counterproductively increasing wokeness). Weird. They're not renaming the Chinese firecracker fart, though. I will die on this hill.
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- Re: Is it also time to rename - Bee Dee November 29, 2022, 11:30 am
- Note that they call it "the flu pandemic of 1918" and not "the Spanish flu" (nt) - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk November 29, 2022, 12:22 pm
- Well, Kansas is a predominantly Spanish state. - B. D. November 29, 2022, 1:07 pm
- Re: Well, Kansas is a predominantly Spanish state. - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk November 29, 2022, 2:24 pm
- Re: Well, Kansas is a predominantly Spanish state. - B. D. November 29, 2022, 11:05 pm
- Argh, I just bought alcohol for the first time in over 10 years and I feel dirty - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk November 29, 2022, 2:41 pm
- "Nervous the whole way back that this could normalize buying alcohol" - Pugeye November 29, 2022, 9:38 pm
- Re: "Nervous the whole way back that this could normalize buying alcohol" - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk November 30, 2022, 4:15 am
- Ah ok - Pugeye November 30, 2022, 11:40 am
- Re: Ah ok - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk November 30, 2022, 1:47 pm
- I had the opposite problem - Pugeye December 1, 2022, 1:46 pm
- Re: I had the opposite problem - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk December 2, 2022, 7:54 am
- Hmmm - Pugeye December 2, 2022, 5:20 pm
- Re: Hmmm - Ken December 3, 2022, 1:07 pm
- "I haven't had problems with feeling worried about falling into that pattern again" - Pugeye December 4, 2022, 10:58 am
- Re: Hmmm - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk December 3, 2022, 4:40 pm
- Re: Hmmm - Ken December 3, 2022, 8:05 pm
- Re: Hmmm - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk December 3, 2022, 4:58 pm
- Re: Hmmm - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk December 3, 2022, 5:38 pm
- Re: I had the opposite problem - Tabernacles E. Townsfolk December 2, 2022, 7:57 am
- Stay strong, Tabs! (nt) - Sam November 29, 2022, 3:38 pm
- Re: Is it also time to rename - Joe November 29, 2022, 6:32 am
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