The H1N1 swine flu pandemic that infected up to 1.4 billion people and killed up to 575,000 originated in factory farmed pigs in the United States. Yet nobody ever calls it the “American Pig Flu.” Let’s stop calling the coronavirus the “Chinese Virus.” We’re all in this together.
The coronavirus is not ‘Chinese’.
Viruses do not have nationalities.
We will defeat this disease not by demonising a whole country, but by reaffirming our commitment to working together to eradicate it for good. Thank you to Unmesh Desai for raising this vital question.