Not trying to be a dick.. I just came across an answered ask and was curious, but what's the difference between calling,for example, the spanish flu the Spanish Flu and calling the Corvid-19 the Wuhan/Chinese Coronavirus.
well the thing is, they called it ‘spanish flu’ 100 yrs ago and nobody thought anything of it. y’know what else nobody thought anything of? segregation and racism in general. so… while they shouldn’t have called it spanish flu to begin with (especially since we still don’t know where it actually came from - the first known case was probably reported in kansas, not spain), it was a different matter back then to people. doesn’t make it right, but that’s just how it is. the name stuck.
today, we know better. or we should know better. we know the kind of effect such labelling can have. we see it everyday.
besides, the virus’ name is really not hard to remember or to pronounce, so there’s no excuse or need to resort to a racist and incorrect alias.