03-10-2020, 11:58 AM
(03-10-2020, 09:22 AM)GMDino Wrote: Yes.
There is also a few extreme sites calling it the "yellow virus".
Just because he can doesn't mean he should. There's not a good reason for it at all.
By this point everyone knows what "coronavirus" means and there is zero need to call it that.
Naturally the defenders are yelling "Spanish Flu"!!!11!11! as a good reason for this to happen. And, naturally, it is because they don't understand history.
I would equate it to when Fox News used to refer to Obama as "Barack HussEIN Obama."
Is it correct to call him that? Yea.
Is that why they're doing it? No.