I never thought they'd name a virus after MY country!

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reconditecache on December 29th, 2020 at 23:21 UTC »

Who says German Sauerkraut or Korean Kimchee? Are there other types of sauerkraut and kimchee?

Like, there are different curries and different "food", but those other two? They're basically already different regional terms for fermented cabbage. Like, overall ignorance aside, is this guy just hungry for something a little sour? Get this man a pickle or something so he'll shut up.

ManbadFerrara on December 29th, 2020 at 23:29 UTC »

Fun fact: the Spanish Flu Epidemic was only called that because Spain was one of the few governments who didn't censor the living shit out of their press during WWI. The first known case was on a US army base in Kansas.

(EDIT: as some have pointed out, there are some other fairly plausible theories of its origin besides the US. But if nothing else: A. it wasn't Spain, and B. giving an ethnic/national-name to a disease is a bad idea in general)

spara07 on December 30th, 2020 at 00:47 UTC »

My British mother took great delight in calling the first round of covid "Chinese flu." I'm now taking great delight in calling this "English flu."

Somehow she's significantly less enthusiastic about naming viruses after countries now.