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The truth is viruses emerge all the time. But the over-extensive use of natural resources make them more probable to infect humans. Overpopulation and globalization accelerated the spread. | The truth is viruses emerge all the time. But the over-extensive use of natural resources make them more probable to infect humans. Overpopulation and globalization accelerated the spread. | ||
China could have given sooner warnings about the threat but didn't because we weren't very nice to them in the past. They didn't wanted to blamed for the mess. They wanted to protect their rise to power. The few information available not just hindered the work of the WHO but also the perception of us regular people to see what Corona really was. Therefore it was another source of harmful skepticism. They shouldn't have tried to censor images about bursting hospitals and crematories. And so we first thought "oh, it's not that bad, it's just a stronger flu". | China could have given sooner warnings about the threat but didn't because we weren't very nice to them in the past. They didn't wanted to be blamed for the mess. They wanted to protect their rise to power. The few information available not just hindered the work of the WHO but also the perception of us regular people to see what Corona really was. Therefore it was another source of harmful skepticism. They shouldn't have tried to censor images about bursting hospitals and crematories. And so we first thought "oh, it's not that bad, it's just a stronger flu". | ||
USA did not help the situation by trying to construct a narrative about the virus being made in Chinese labs – therefore sabotaging chances of cooperation – while also downplaying the danger of the virus on their own ground. Trump basically killed a good number republicans himself and destroyed social coherence. Masks? Pah, who needs that? Stop being so unpatriotic... When nature proofed him wrong he tried to sell his lies as anti-panic doings. -- At first sight it seems reasonable to name a virus after its location of discovery (e.g. Marburg Virus) but Trump was using the term "Chinese virus" to aid his anti-China campaign, in hope to persuade / mobilize voters. (Trump was in a permanent election campaign mode.) As a consequence this contributed to the [https://asm.org/Articles/2021/May/Why-Scientists-Should-Not-Name-Diseases-After-Plac discrimination] of Asian-looking people. Eventually SARS-CoV-2 variants were named after letters of the Greek alphabet. Irony of life? For purpose of de-escalation even [[wp:de:Benennung_der_Varianten_von_SARS-CoV-2|Xi was skipped]]. (Some may call this ahead running obedience, others may call it political sensitiveness.) | USA did not help the situation by trying to construct a narrative about the virus being made in Chinese labs – therefore sabotaging chances of cooperation – while also downplaying the danger of the virus on their own ground. Trump basically killed a good number republicans himself and destroyed social coherence. Masks? Pah, who needs that? Stop being so unpatriotic... When nature proofed him wrong he tried to sell his lies as anti-panic doings. -- At first sight it seems reasonable to name a virus after its location of discovery (e.g. Marburg Virus) but Trump was using the term "Chinese virus" to aid his anti-China campaign, in hope to persuade / mobilize voters. (Trump was in a permanent election campaign mode.) As a consequence this contributed to the [https://asm.org/Articles/2021/May/Why-Scientists-Should-Not-Name-Diseases-After-Plac discrimination] of Asian-looking people. Eventually SARS-CoV-2 variants were named after letters of the Greek alphabet. Irony of life? For purpose of de-escalation even [[wp:de:Benennung_der_Varianten_von_SARS-CoV-2|Xi was skipped]]. (Some may call this ahead running obedience, others may call it political sensitiveness.) | ||