It's an issue. Chinese and Indian people living in this country have had some horrible abuse thrown at them during this pandemic because of the naming. I would imagine if you were a Brit living elsewhere during the height of the 'UK variant', you would be in for a torrid time too. Greek letter naming is much better.
Enough already that's just too much empathy for a Sunday afternoon from woke land.
Oh damn...
It’s a fine line though. Here in the US, Trump incessantly referring to it as the China Virus, Wuhan Flu, Kung Flu, etc, almost certainly led to real violence being committed against people of Chinese descent (or other Asian descents who the perpetrators were too stupid to know the difference). If the world didn’t have so many ****heads running around, then just using place names would be fine. Sadly, that’s not the world we live in.
Was labelled as the Chinese virus for many months, more so in other countries, which led to some horrific racial incidents and social exclusion last year in countries where Chinese people are an ethnic minority. There's no doubt that labelling makes a difference. It's not about being 'offended' in a 'woke' sense, it does encourage blanket blaming of ethnicities, and they're the ones who suffer.
The poor Greeks must be getting terrible abuse. Every variant is now linked to them.
No idea who they are, could well be. At least on this topic however thought they were spot on.
Labelling makes a difference, so why not call it the Chinese virus caused by eating wet market wild animals.. a little bit of stigmatising might cause change in that barbaric practice along with lessening the chances of another pandemic..
